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Back in 2016, Starbucks began serving coffee with strawless lids at Seattle’s Reserve Roastery.

Plastic Free July Challenge starts today. Join millions of people who are about to reduce their plastic waste!

If you get stung by a bee, wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, or fire ant, would you know if you had an allergic reaction?

Russian emergency officials have raised the death toll to five people and say that at least six settlements are still cut off following devastating flooding that has forced hundreds of evacuations in southern Siberia.

Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution.

George Rosenkranz, a chemist who synthesized the key ingredient in the birth control pill, has died.

Scientists from the University of Nottingham have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate ‘brown fat’, the body’s own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes. The pioneering study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is one of the first to be carried out in humans to […]

Nearly 100 whales held in an infamous “whale jail” in Russia’s far east have begun to be freed, state television announced during a call-in show with Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

While the truth might be out there, technological aliens don’t seem to be — at least not yet. New results from the most comprehensive Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program ever undertaken — which surveyed 1,327 nearby stars for signals from intelligent beings — have turned up empty.

We have known for a long time that naval sonar has devastating effects on marine life but just exactly how it leads to sickness and death was a mystery till now.