When phones or computers are recycled, small amounts of important materials get discarded. Those minute amounts of cobalt, ...

In small-scale and artisanal mining, mercury is used extensively to extract gold. In this practice, the gold reacts with ...

Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

Home cooks are tossing out their beat-up black plastic cooking utensils in bulk to prevent microplastics and toxic chemicals from leaching into their food. If you’ve lost your favorite utensils in the ...