It may be time to break out the face masks again. COVID-19 cases are on the rise nationwide due to a new omicron subvariant, EG.5, nicknamed “Eris.” Though Wisconsin isn't getting hit hard yet, ...

We all know those random plastic masks you can buy at the store are not feats of design. Also, they always smell kind of weird. The masks you get in those Halloween stores somehow completely disappear ...

Oct. 26—Like everything else, Halloween is celebrated differently today than it was in the 1960s and 70s. While some of that is good, other aspects aren't. I don't remember Halloween being observed in ...

The author writes, “The surge in the use of disposable face masks during the Covid pandemic has left a chemical time bomb that could harm humans, animals and the environment, research suggests.

Since the COVID pandemic, disposable masks have become the omnipresent trash du jour, ever reminding us that disease transmission is only one of the problems currently threatening the global ...

Remember all those disposable masks we went through during the pandemic? Billions of them ended up in landfills, adding to the mountain of plastic waste choking our planet. Scientists in China have ...