There are many causes of climate change. One example is cutting down trees. This is a problem that some people don't know about. Carbon dioxide is released from the trunk when it breaks down or gets ...

Experts weigh in on when it is safe to use takeout containers for food storage and heating up leftovers.

“Reduce, reuse, recycle.” For more than 50 years, those three Rs have been the world’s go-to environmental mantra. On the face of it, the three Rs sound like an empowering call for each of us to play ...

As families make plans to gather for festive meals and gift exchanges, city waste crews are preparing for their busiest time of the year. Between wrapping paper, food scraps and packaging and shipping ...

SEATTLE — The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and gift-giving—but it also brings a surge in household waste. In fact, the volume of household waste in the United States increases about ...

Recycling is known to keep waste of out landfills, prevent greenhouse gas emissions, reduce water pollution and save energy. Reducing and reusing are just as important in that effort. Megan Shidler, ...

Black soldier flies are now commercially used to consume organic waste -- but genetic modifications proposed by bioscientists could see the insects digesting a wider variety of refuse, while also ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...