With some craft store and DIY essentials, you can create a unique sponge holder out of a plastic jug that would ordinarily end up in a landfill.

Pool noodles are fun toys in the water, but they're also incredibly versatile and can be useful all around the house as well.

Carbon dioxide levels keep climbing, even after years of promises to cut emissions. At the same time, plastic waste pours into oceans, rivers, and landfills.

Homebuyers are finally seeing some relief in the final months of 2025. Recent back-to-back Federal Reserve rate cuts have pushed 30-year fixed mortgage interest rates down to the low-6% range, which ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report published Monday in the Lancet medical journal said. The ...

A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on pollution. A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on ...

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The first time I used a magic eraser sponge to clean my baseboard, every scuff mark that I assumed would remain a permanent fixture until I painted vanished within seconds, leaving behind a stark ...

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Kongjian Yu, the son of a rice farmer who tended terraced water-filled rice fields in China, is now a world-renowned leading voice on what he calls 'sponge planet:' Sponge cities, sponge waterfronts, ...

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...