Garbage

Sri Lanka is facing a rapidly unfolding environmental crisis after a cargo ship that caught on fire last month has…

Tonnes of plastic waste from a burning container ship is washing ashore in Sri Lanka in what’s likely the nation’s…

A rash of sensational headlines in recent months have warned of a rising infertility crisis in men as sperm counts…

This week, Elon Musk-backed OpenAI released to the public the latest version of their GPT-2 predictive text generator

Recycling is in trouble. There are many reasons for this, chief among them a string of new bans and restrictions on…

Your personal data—be it financial spreadsheets or web searches—is not something you want to be leaving behind for…

The area immediately above our planet where most of our satellites live might seem like an inexhaustible place, but…

Most people don’t give a second thought to the poop they flush away. But perhaps they should, because the energy…

There are 118 elements on the periodic table. An iPhone contains about 75 of them.

For most of his life, British author and BBC radio producer Tim Dee has been a birdwatcher. But it’s not finches and…

In Philadelphia, people like to recycle. Together, all 1.6 million of us generate about 400 tons of recyclable…

While some might find them gross, you could say that the animals we associate with garbage like opossums and…

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these…

When it comes to their stuff, people often have a hard time letting go. When the object of their obsession are rooms…

The world is trash. Even leaving aside the garbage of regular citizens—the many stadiums’ worth of shit and piss,…