You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. Plastic surgery is on the rise, with some procedures becoming so common and flawlessly handled among film stars and influencers that they ar ...

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may offer a surprising way out. In recent years, microbiologists have ...

Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more. Nayak Plastic Surgery When Margot started following plastic surgeon Dr. Mike Nayak on Instagram, she had no ...

Scientists have known for years now that plastic is extremely harmful to human health and the planet. Yet, companies continue to make items with synthetic polymers (aka plastic) because of how ...

We’ve updated this piece to clarify and add context to a study finding flame-retardant chemicals in some black plastic. February 2025 It’s probably time to ditch your plastic utensils.

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. They have bellies so full of fragments, they crunch when touched.

The momager mogul has sparked lots of buzz around her transformation in recent months — and she has this plastic surgeon to thank Steve Granitz/FilmMagic; Kris Jenner/Instagram When Kris Jenner ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law ...

In December 2018, Great Britain's Royal Statistical Society named the core fact in this story—that only about nine percent of all plastic ever made has likely been recycled— its statistic of ...