The beads are increasingly viewed as a problem, but a Mardi Gras without beads also seems unfathomable. That is why it was a ...

It is Carnival season in New Orleans. That means gazillions of plastic green, gold and purple beads are being tossed to ...

Amid Lohri festivities, the Ludhiana rural police installed specially designed iron wire shields on two-wheelers to protect bikers from accidental injuries caused by entanglement with Chinese kite ...

Ludhiana: For eight-year-old Prabhjot Singh, the simple joy of a scooter ride with his father has turned into a recurring nightmare. Two weeks after a banned plastic kite string sliced through his ...

Even as plastic and Chinese kite strings dominate the market, traditional thread-based manjha continues to hold its ground in the city, sustained by a small group of artisans in the Daresi area who ...

XAVIER STRINGS and their five-piece band set The Falls at Westmall on fire two weekends ago with performances that drew a full house and had people cheering and clapping from the balconies. No one ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a very thin ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...

Every single dental care product you use is made from plastic — no, that’s not an exaggeration. Toothbrushes have plastic handles and bristles. Floss thread is essentially a plastic string packed in a ...

Biotech startup FutureBio, the first tenant of UC Berkeley’s Bakar Labs for Energy and Materials, hopes to produce and recycle a new kind of durable, biorenewable plastic at a lower cost than regular ...

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