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In a scientific first, researchers have recorded how quickly microplastics pass through the gut of zooplankton to better understand marine plastic pollution.

First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana. Now, fishermen fear the ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

Many of us begin a new year hoping to become better versions of ourselves. Some aim to improve their health, others focus on ...

Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise ...

The world feels ordinary until a single detail shifts your perspective. A quiet fact can linger in your thoughts, reshaping ...

Venezuela’s oil reserves could shift global supply, ease inflation and influence U.S. interest rates, energy security and ...

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...