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Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs and broken glass bottles, instead of shells. New research by Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...

A worker transports plastic waste slated for a compressor in Bentong, Malaysia, in June 2024 before the waste is recycled and sold. (Mohd Rasfan / AFP/Getty Images) Malaysia will ban plastic waste ...

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What type of pollution is so tiny it can be invisible to the naked eye? Hint: Humans ingest it through the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink. The answer: microplastics.

America has a plastic problem. Everybody knows it. The images are everywhere overflowing landfills, ocean-bound waste, r ...