You probably use aluminum foil, parchment paper, wax paper, and maybe even plastic wrap fairly regularly. Their boxes aren’t big, no — but that’s kind of the problem. They’re skinny and ...
Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...
They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...
Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine ...
I write about the world of psychology. In recent years, the concept of “plastic wrap parenting” has surfaced, depicting a parenting style marked by overprotectiveness and excessive control ...
From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic ...
News Wrap: Slovakia’s prime minister shot in assassination attempt In our news wrap Wednesday, Slovakia's prime minister was shot multiple times today in an assassination attempt, the Supreme ...
Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...
Plastic is a really useful man-made material that has transformed our lives, but what happens after we throw it away is causing a big problem for our planet. Plastic waste can last for hundreds of ...