Sydney’s clever and adaptable sulfur-crested cockatoos learn how to pry open garbage bins by watching one another. By James Gorman You’ve heard of trash pandas: Raccoons raiding the garbage. How about ...

Human trash can be a cockatoo’s treasure. In Sydney, the birds have learned how to open garbage bins and toss trash around in the streets as they hunt for food scraps. People are now fighting back.

In the future, perhaps we’ll be mining our landfills and fishing through our oceans for the raw materials to make fuel. Using a two-catalyst process, a joint U.S.-China team of researchers has figured ...

Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

A plastic bag drifted more than 36,000 feet below the ocean's surface and landed in the Mariana Trench. Scientists believe it to be the deepest known piece of plastic garbage. "The influence of ...

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A house made from paper. A hovercraft made from old CDs, glue, balloons and rubber bands. A cobra made from Popsicle sticks. These are some of the unique toys created by Arvind Gupta, who lives in ...

TRASH features the work of 12 artists from around the globe focused on the timely topic of trash. The exhibit empowers kids to take the lead in their families on talking about environmental and social ...

It’s true that lava is hot enough to burn up some of our trash. When Kilauea erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2018, the lava flows were hotter than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 Celsius). That ...