The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

STOCKHOLM, March 18 — Defiantly flipping off both middle fingers, a mermaid made of recovered metal scraps with hair fashioned out of red plastic tubes was lowered into murky green waters outside ...

NEW YORK, March 17: As plastic waste continues to accumulate in the environment, humans are unknowingly ingesting microplastics through drinking water and food, with detrimental effects on internal ...

Brits could be forced to share baths and drink bottled water without urgent action to fix the country’s water supply, a top minister has said. Environment Secretary Steve Reed warned there could ...

Scientists have issued a warning after a study found the human brain contains about a spoon's worth of plastics. The levels of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) were three to five times higher ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New ...

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