Human trash can be a cockatoo’s treasure. In Sydney, the birds have learned how to open garbage bins and toss trash around in the streets as they hunt for food scraps. People are now fighting back.

Sydney’s clever and adaptable sulfur-crested cockatoos learn how to pry open garbage bins by watching one another. By James Gorman You’ve heard of trash pandas: Raccoons raiding the garbage. How about ...

Boyan Slat, CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, talks about the new and improved river plastic Interceptors and the nonprofit's plans for building and deploying more of them around the world. I'm an ...

A house made from paper. A hovercraft made from old CDs, glue, balloons and rubber bands. A cobra made from Popsicle sticks. These are some of the unique toys created by Arvind Gupta, who lives in ...

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