Next to portable bubbles and sidewalk chalk, kiddie pools are a warm weather necessity for most families. If you've spent a large portion of your summer days only pulling out the family kiddie ...

Luckily, we have a long list of ways you can repurpose that kiddie pool in your yard and garden. Weighing next to nothing and ...

Mastiffs like Benny have a lot of amazing traits, like guarding, but not when it comes to swimming. Dogster notes that ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Discover 18 easy-to-make homemade enrichment toys for your dog. They’re great options whether a rainy day has messed up your ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise ... sell everything from inflatable pools to cooking utensils to artificial flowers. To photographer Richard John Seymour ...

While the three downward-facing strokes allow athletes to track their position in the pool by looking at a black line on the pool floor, backstrokers must find their own reference point with which to ...

Despite global concerns over the accumulation of plastic waste, the drive to produce new plastics shows no signs of slowing down. According to OECD data, the world’s annual plastic production ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities ...

Plastic is a really useful man-made material that has transformed our lives, but what happens after we throw it away is causing a big problem for our planet. Plastic waste can last for hundreds of ...

Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...