Desperate Palestinians at a garbage dump in a Gaza neighborhood are digging with their bare hands for plastic items to burn ...

A 12-year-old girl, from Northampton, has won a change maker award, after she helped to collect more than one million pieces of litter worldwide.

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Gov. Phil Murphy signed more than a hundred bills before he left office Tuesday, including legislation to bar restaurants ...

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Our dedicated coastal teams, contractors, and an army of volunteers have been kept busy over the past couple of weeks cleaning debris from our beaches.

A Dorchester man faces multiple drug charges following an investigation in the Mass and Cass area on Saturday. Officers ...

After the robbers fled on bikes, the Pune Rural police traced them to a forest area in the Velhe taluka and chased them.

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A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate different state recycling requirements and labeling by creating a single, national ...

The man said he was standing at the bottom of some steps with other demonstrators when federal officers above opened fire at ...

The water jugs, sold by Michigan-based supermarket chain Meijer, were originally recalled in November, but contaminated water ...