I could tell you a dozen stories about cooking on a budget. Some are triumphant—like the time I hosted my entire MFA cohort with a DIY baked potato bar and some donated champagne. Others are sadder: ...

If you cut toilet paper tubes in half, then stand them up in a box with an open end face down, you can put cat treats inside them and let your cat hunt for them. Apparently, cats love it, as the owner ...

This season of giving can really do a number on our recycling systems. But we can all be part of the solution. WCCO spoke with Abigail Sztein with the American Forest and Paper Association about how ...

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A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became smaller and less aggressive. Humans have long shaped the environments in ...

Americans chuck a lot of food. The average household tosses $3,000 worth in the trash every year, a cost that’s nearly doubled since the last time the EPA ran its numbers. The planet-warming impact of ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech will debut its first industrial-scale composting machine Thursday as the university works toward its waste-reduction goals. The composter, funded through a 2024 grant from the ...

At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they’re literally leaving too much meat on the bone. Even a 1% improvement in yield could ...

Delaware County Council adopted the county’s first-ever Zero Waste Plan, which is intended to dramatically reduce the amount of waste sent to either an incinerator or landfill. “If we want to see a ...

Union County, NJ - The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce the final mobile paper shredding and household hazardous waste events of the 2025 season, along with continued ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Do you use your bank's online bill pay system? It's convenient, but it turns out it is not always as quick or secure as your might think. One woman recently learned she was ...