Recycling

The system was designed by the nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup, which spent the past four years secretly developing and testing the technology while it continued to work on its main project -- a device that can capture plastic trash once it's already in the ocean…

Prior to delivering the keynote address at the Ceres sustainability gala in New York City this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke briefly with GQ about the company's environmental efforts, iPhone trade-ins, and more. Apple has heavily promoted its iPhone trade-i…

Halloween is still nearly a week off, but it’s already looking a lot like Christmas on the Hallmark Channel. The network’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” near round-the-clock programming of schmaltzy holiday romance flicks starts Friday with a Christmas-the…

This year the Drug Enforcement Administration is accepting electronic vaping devices during its annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day event. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP In the wake of vaping-related deaths and illnesses, the Drug Enforcement Administrat…

Wineries in the mid-Atlantic region should consider recycling and encouraging their customers to bring bottles to their tasting rooms for refilling to distinguish their businesses from so many others, according to a team of wine-marketing researchers who surv…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The new process turns polyethylene into motor oil When Kenneth Poeppelmeier opened the reactor vessel in his lab and saw liquid, he said it was a real "eureka moment". "All of us were so excited," he told BBC News.…

I am a huge fan of using this brush to spread Otter wax all over my favorite raincoats. As temperatures drop its time to get ready for the wet. It has certainly already arrived elsewhere. One of my two waxed-cotton coats was leaking last winter. The sleeve s…

MANILA — The Philippine National Police is considering pushing for the creation of a "superbody" that will lead President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-narcotics drive, as the organization fights allegations that some of its officers resold seized narcotics, the PNP…

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte is backing a revamp of the Philippine National Police ahead of the appointment of a new national police chief, his spokesman said Monday.  Duterte's spokesman Salvador Panelo said the President "agreed" with the revamp with…

A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyrightDelil Souleiman/AFPImage caption A woman covers her face by a road near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, along the border with Turkey. Behind her, tyre fires ha…