Environment

Recycling options vary among communities but here are some general tips on how to get rid of your real tree.

With piles of shiny Christmas paper, bows, boxes, and gift bags, some may be left wondering how to dispose of all the remnants.

Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time surviving, the study found.

Researchers in the U.K. are warning about how microplastics can infiltrate our food, conducting an experiment that found about 230,000 microplastic particles in a traditional roast chicken dinner with sides.

The climate activists used a hydraulic lift and a hand saw to cut 6 feet off the top of the tree and hang up a banner stating: “This is only the tip of the Christmas tree.”

“He said this is free speech and he’s doing the opposite,” the 20-year-old college student who started the flight-tracking account said.

Climate change is putting uncertainties on to future Winter Games.

Researchers and outside experts acknowledge it will likely take decades more before fusion might one day be used to produce nearly limitless carbon-free energy.

The two largest reservoirs on the river, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are at unprecedented low levels.

Sam Kass, who served as the primary chef of the Obama family in the White House warned that a number of the world's most valuable commodities will be “largely unavailable" in the next several decades.

The Hawaiian mountain's first eruption in nearly 40 years may end soon, scientists say.

An Illinois family nearly lost their 3-year-old black lab after he likely inhaled a fungus living in soil around his home.

A Canada-based energy company says 14,000 barrels of oil spilled into a creek in a rural area more than 100 miles northwest of Kansas City.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland.

The minerals have been named after the town of El Ali, where the meteorite crashed in Somalia, and “elkinstantonite,” after planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton.

Mauna Loa is the world’s largest active shield volcano and has been erupting for around a week.

Mauna Loa's last volcanic eruption in Hawaii lasted three weeks in 1984, but some volcanoes erupt for months or years.

The vast majority of consumer plastic products “simply cannot be recycled,” advocates say. Meanwhile, plastic production is expected to triple by 2050.