Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

Most drownings of younger children occur when they shouldn't be swimming in the first place. Of course, kids should be under constant adult supervision while swimming, but parents should also be ...

The "giant pool noodle" dispatched into the Pacific Ocean last September to catch and clean up thousands of tonnes of floating plastic has run into trouble. Invented by Boyan Slat when he was 17, the ...