INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Community members are throwing pasta strainers, kitty litter scoops, buckets, tarps, leaf blowers, and shop vacuums at cleaning up potentially hundreds of thousands of ...

It’s much easier for a telescope to see deep into the universe when it doesn’t have to peer through the Earth’s atmosphere, but getting them into space is expensive. There is a much cheaper solution, ...

Floating drifts of bead-sized white pieces of plastic washed up on the Sullivan's Island beach on Thursday, mostly along a private seawall near Station 12. The foamed plastic were light enough to ...

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The drifts of tiny white balls floating along the shoreline and collecting on the beaches of Lake Tahoe's Incline Village this week weren’t snow. The Tahoe Daily Tribune first reported that volunteers ...

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A new environmental disaster is emerging from the Queensland floods, with locals dubbing the thousands of tiny polystyrene beads covering the coastlines as the "white spill". At least 12 pontoons that ...

New York City is joining a growing group of cities in banning Expandable Polystyrene Foam (EPS). Adam Harris explains what makes this material so worrisome to environmentalists - and appealing to ...

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