A more than 15-acre wildfire broke out in Wimauma on Sunday afternoon as the Bay Area remains under a burn ban.

Hillsborough County issued a burn ban on Friday as warm temperatures and dry conditions pose an increased risk of wildfires, ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. - Citing dangerously dry conditions and elevated wildfire risks, Hillsborough County today declared ...

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — yet some people might ...

Firefighters battled a massive fire at a plastic landfill in the Czech Republic on Monday, covering an area of at least 450 ...

Nickel is a common metal present in the environment, and human exposure can occur through diet, the environment and materials ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Some people have reported they find standing or walking painful while on the medication and even that their shoe size has ...

Landfill remained the main destination for most plastic waste, accounting for 40% of the global total. But burning was "emerging as the most practiced method for managing plastic waste" with the ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10 percent with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday. The rest was produced from ...

A passenger said she woke up to a smell similar to burning plastic, and others mentioned that the smoke irritated their eyes and throats. Passengers were given wet towels, and they also used eye masks ...