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A bear scaling balconies.

Outdoors

Tennessee black bear raids cabin balcony, steals Publix bag, and hustles it to waiting cub

A snow-covered mountain with a research station and a body of water in the foreground.

Tech

Nanoplastics show up in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, once thought beyond pollution

A bear cub with a jug stuck on its head.

Outdoors

New Hampshire officer sees chance, grabs bear cub, frees plastic jug from its head

A purple martin.

Outdoors

Florida purple martin is found impaled by plastic, then returns to its home colony

blue pens in a cup focused on the pen caps

Home

In India, a Redditor uses pen caps as clothespins, then shares a dozen more reuse hacks

A sign for Harley Street in Westminster, London.

Tech

London's Harley Street clinics now offer microplastic tests and even treatments

A hand in a blue glove holds three small glass vials containing colorful sediment and particles.

Tech

Texas study finds microplastics in nearly every North Texas waterway, urges action

A brightly colored fish with a silver body and orange-black striped tail swimming in water.

Tech

In Brazil's Amazon, a fish eaten for everyday meals is turning up with plastic in its gut

A glass jar filled with vibrant kimchi sits on a table with wooden chopsticks nearby.

Food

Korean kimchi may help clear microplastics from the gut, early study in mice suggests

A close-up of a clear container filled with water, showing colorful microplastics suspended near the surface.

Tech

New living plastic self-destructs in 6 days, without leaving microplastics

Fish swimming in brown water.

Tech

Half the fish sampled in Brazil's Amazon contained microplastics, and sewage may be to blame

A futuristic product design featuring two variants of a sleek, transparent container with "Ho'i" branding.

Food

In Hawai'i, to-go containers are about to work like library books: free, washable, and returnable