I had almost no experience with it until I spent a brutal, windy Minnesota fall installing 4 in. PVC conduit underground at a ...

PEX tubing is an easy-to-install alternative to copper pipe. Long used in radiant heating systems, flexible PEX tubing is ...

Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.” By Hiroko Tabuchi Paid influencers on TikTok. An infomercial ...

Plastic waste pollutes our oceans, food, even our bodies. This week, 175 countries are trying to create a treaty to reduce that waste. Nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, who produce fossil ...

Yet some of them found themselves on the red-eye to this coastal city to lay the foundations of a new United Nations-mediated treaty to end plastic pollution – and potentially the production of ...

Plastic also harms species inhabiting marine, freshwater, and land ecosystems. Plastic contributes to climate change as well. In 2020, it generated 3.6% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with ...

Annette Roberge certainly felt like one as she crossed the stage to get her diploma at 90 years old ... I could've possibly imagined." This degree has been decades in the making for the mother ...

Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement. By Hiroko ...

Donald Trump’s attorney and adviser Boris Epshteyn arrived recently for a meeting about Cabinet picks in the Tea Room at Mar-a-Lago only to find his way blocked. Transition co-chair Howard ...

But the rise in popularity has led to an unintended consequence: Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing twist ties, cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into ...

A Garbage Patch is a vast, swirling zone where currents trap floating plastic, creating debris fields spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometres. Although high plastic concentration points are ...

Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross-linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its structure and strength. In seawater (and in soil, not depicted), resalting ...