From Canada to Colombia to Ivory Coast, people are converting plastic waste into building materials and using it to construct homes, schools, community centres and storage facilities.

I assure you, nothing will prepare you for the complete unabashed power of a 9-plus magnitude earthquake. Good Friday, 1964, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Hire a structural engineer to evaluate our ...

To put that into context, that's the equivalent weight of 650 Empire State Buildings. The report comes as the world reaches Plastic Overshoot Day - the day humanity's plastic waste surpasses our ...

Plastic bottles choke the Cibeles fountain, outside city hall in central Madrid ... It’s a matter of building the necessary institutions and systems, he says—ideally before the ocean turns ...

Scientists believe some plastic trash lasts forever. Rosenthal observed how bottles, toys, and food wrappers fade, wear out, yet never disappear. He started building and photographing sculptures ...

With no plans to retire, medical records billionaire Judy Faulkner tells Forbes about her plans to ensure Epic remains ...

Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say. Researchers are particularly concerned about huge concentrations of microplastic ...

Israeli troops crossed the border for the first time since 2006 in a ground operation targeting Hezbollah. The Israeli military called for evacuations in southern Lebanon. As a Crisis Builds ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

Since around 2019, an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitian immigrants have settled in Springfield, which previously had a ...

To the editor: The bill passed by the California Legislature to eliminate plastic bags at grocery stores, even the thicker “reusable” ones that are rarely reused, is a long overdue.

But Rushanara Ali told parliament yesterday that “counting the buildings that we know about is not enough” and there could be many more outside the official statistics. She said: “We estimate that as ...