However, Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government told the BBC that explanation was "wholly unconvincing" and "pretty much garbage." Prof Martin - former head ...

Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern University chemists have developed a simple new method for breaking down plastic waste. The non-toxic, environmentally friendly, solvent-free process ...

"I think some people are still underneath the garbage," he tells the BBC. Many of them eked out a living by washing and selling whatever discarded items they found that still had value - anything ...

One of the largest landfills in the country, it is also called the "garbage mountain of Delhi". Image: Dr Arshad Khan and a patient. He has been practicing near the garbage mountain for 14 years A ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...

As the video of the Indian Railways employee went viral, Railway Seva reacted by saying that the official concerned had been "removed". Listen to Story A video of a railway employee throwing garbage ...

MANILA — The moment his boots hit the ground, “Yorme” will waste no time in cleaning up the city. “First of all, I will clean up Manila again,” former Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko ...

Garbage disposals are the unsung heroes of many a kitchen. Mounted beneath the sink drain, these devices pulverize food waste into tiny bits so that you can easily wash them away. Less food winds ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Over the past three years, a collection of organizations has stepped up efforts to improve the ...

A nuclear power renaissance—driven in part by power-hungry AI data centers—has revived a thorny problem: what to do with the radioactive waste left behind. Already, more than 90,000 metric ...