WASHINGTON—The Department of Health and Human Services has found a new lever to cut off billions in federal funding that it believes is wasteful or potentially fraudulent, a move that could affect ...

Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol. The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has ...

Scientists have developed a method to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen using solar power and acid from old car batteries. The one-pot process transforms hard-to-recycle plastics into valuable ...

Marin County could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 31,000 metric tons a year with a better strategy for recycling organic waste, according to a new study. The report by the Marin ...

AI firm Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing, an initiative which uses AI to identify and remediate undiscovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical software. Project Glasswing, named after ...

ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom. By Ana Swanson and Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington ...

I had this idea of building my own bicycle lighting system totally personalized, the lights would have the exact lighting pattern I wanted and the shape I decide. That's why I started to build this ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers demonstrate the successful engineering of a biological process to "upcycle" poly ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it’s also created one of the defining ...