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For now, bioplastic represents just 1% of global plastic production, but the industry envisions a bigger role for materials made from corn, sugar and vegetable oils.

New research finds that more than half of infectious diseases known to affect humans were aggravated by climate change.

India, Russia and Japan have new moon missions launching later this year or next, as do a slew of private companies in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Canine eggheads enjoy playing with toys and retrieving objects.

The fossilized bones, in particular, could suggest people lived in North America tens of thousands of years before the generally accepted date for the arrival of the first Native Americans of about 10,000 B.C. BCE.

For the first time in four decades, America’s fifth-longest river went dry in the New Mexico city last week.

The annual Florida Python Challenge invites novices to hunt invasive Burmese pythons alongside professionals and compete for cash prizes.

The report comes as UNESCO considers whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger.”

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March.

The Icelandic Meteorological Office urged people not to go near the Fagradalsfjall volcano, which is located some 20 miles southwest of the capital, Reykjavik.

The new research challenges the idea that the beginning of cell death is irreversible, though bioethicists say it also poses significant questions.