“Eco-friendly” paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. In the first analysis of its kind in Europe, and only the second in the world, ...

Many ancient human societies loved beer. Bronze-Age Egyptians built factories to brew it. Foragers stored the fermented drink in a cave in Israel about 13,000 years ago. A pre-Incan empire in the ...

Microplastics can contaminate soil, water, and air. As a result, they become part of the environment. “Microplastics can get ...

Today, a straw made of precious metal like silver or gold might seem like an extravagance. But really, if you sipped out of one, you’d be paying homage to our oldest known straws. Recently, scientists ...

Paper or plastic? President Trump has joined the debate on straws. President Donald Trump will try to put an end to what he calls a "ridiculous push" for paper straws. "I will be signing an Executive ...

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In order to keep disposable plastic straws from ending up in the ocean and harming sea animals, companies like Disney, Starbucks and Whole Foods have all vowed not to carry the item, most of which can ...

A collection of ancient gold and silver tubes unearthed in 1897 were initially believed to be poles or scepters. But now, experts say the findings may be the world’s earliest example of drinking ...

Since Seattle’s plastic straw ban has taken effect, an array of biodegradable straws has hit restaurants, bars and cafés — some decent and some that dissolve almost the instant they come in contact ...

Which metal straw is best? People all over the world are moving away from disposable plastic straws because of their detrimental impact on the environment. Some restaurants and other businesses have ...

In 2015, the video of a straw being removed from the nostril of a sea turtle reinforced efforts to eliminate plastic straws from the waste stream. The video went viral with images of the turtle ...

Last week, my wife, Sally, and I dropped off the kids at a friend’s house and got out of town for the night. We went to Shelter Island, on the far eastern edge of Long Island, between the Hamptons and ...