A protester walking around on stilts was knocked down by cops after they struck his wooden legs while they tried to quell unrest at an anti-ICE riot in Los Angeles over the weekend. Dramatic video ...

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Dakota Albritton, known as "Stilts," became the "World's Tallest Baseball Player" after attending a Savannah Bananas tryout in 2021. Albritton's parents encouraged him to incorporate stilts into ...

A new ocean-dissolvable plastic from Japan breaks down overnight with no microplastics left behind – safe, strong, and eco-friendly innovation for the future.

The scourge of plastic pollution is nothing new. Natural polymers such as rubber and cellulose were widely used before synthetic plastics emerged with the Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland’s invention of ...

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

The latest trend in plastic surgery is quiet, demure, and undetectable. Here, everything to know.

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...

At the final round of plastic treaty negotiations, a production cap hangs in the balance Dozens of countries say the treaty will only “end plastic pollution” if it restricts production.

But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, ... That notion had gained traction leading up to the final round of talks in Busan, ...