Nepal is also tightening regulations on gear. Expedition teams must now inventory every item, from ladders to prayer flags.

In the future, perhaps we’ll be mining our landfills and fishing through our oceans for the raw materials to make fuel. Using a two-catalyst process, a joint U.S.-China team of researchers has figured ...

What’s the fastest growing mountain in Colorado? It’s near the Denver airport. And it’s not a volcano. It’s a mountain of trash, dozed into a 250-foot-tall pyramid that towers above the nearest ...

A house made from paper. A hovercraft made from old CDs, glue, balloons and rubber bands. A cobra made from Popsicle sticks. These are some of the unique toys created by Arvind Gupta, who lives in ...

Art is rarely made with the intention of throwing it away. But that’s the mission of Trash Detectives, a project copresented by the Frost Museum of Science and the Miami Science Barge that will launch ...

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About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage. The researchers discovered that trash ...