Bowerbirds love discarded plastic. The males use colorful pieces to woo mates in an elaborate courtyard outside their nests. New research shows that another animal is putting our plastic waste to good ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs and broken glass bottles, instead of shells. New research by Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying ...

In the mid-twentieth century, back when colonizing the solar system seemed imminent, people decided to save money by building homes out of plastic. You can see the results here. Some are ...

The next time you take a bag of plastic bottles to the recycler, you might be providing the building material for a new home — at least if the would-be refuse ends up on Azure Printed Homes' ...

Colombian company Conceptos Plásticos saw two pressing issues in the world and decided to tackle both with recycled building materials. One issue is the housing crisis, prevalent in Latin America ...

New research finds that people are inhaling thousands of particles of plastic that "enter deep into our respiratory system" Getty Images Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic a day — and ...

Buckminster Fuller got us thinking about geodesic domes after WWII. Since then, hemispherical homes have been made of concrete, foam, plastic, wood and fabric propped up by metal framework. Dome homes ...

Los Angeles-based startup Azure is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab homes. The startup is now selling several models ranging from a backyard studio to a two-bedroom ADU. Azure says it can ...

Look at most any home in America and they all have at least one thing in common: Four walls. There is, however, a growing sector of housing that bucks this most basic structural element -- the dome ...

Portland can brag there are 50 tiny houses listed on the lodging site Airbnb. Why? People crave them. Not only are the names of the hand-built homes cute -- Chicken Little Cottage, Open Rafters-- but ...

Popularized by futurist-philosopher Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic dome home is easily identified by its circular construction, which has about one-third less surface area than a traditional ...

Cars, in particular, are a concerning source as they are small, enclosed spaces with limited ventilation, the researchers said Humans inhale nearly 70,000 pieces of plastic that are small enough to ...