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No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.

Summer travel raises fears that the highly infectious virus will spread. Here's how to protect yourself and your family.

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people 'fall in love' with math.

Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found.

U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.

Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment.

Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.

Significant numbers of older people have the condition. Many find relief with an effective treatment that is being more widely prescribed.

Nuclear experts say the president's rejection of the restrictive deal forced him to neutralize an Iranian threat of his own making.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.