WITH the days getting brighter and longer, many of us will be turning our focus to sprucing up our outdoor spaces.  Aldi ...

LIDL’s massive garden event kicked off this month. Shoppers can spruce up their balconies with wooden decking tiles and bamboo screens, whilst gardeners can pressure wash patios and light up ...

Since 2011, the town and its surrounds have provided some of the richest finds in South American archaeology, a veritable Aladdin’s cave of ancient relics, including ornaments of copper and gold ...

Garden decor does not have to cost a fortune. Find unique antiques and trinkets you can repurpose for your garden oasis, at your local thrift shop.

Simply cut up your discs into small pieces and glue them to an inexpensive wooden or plastic photo frame for ... from your CDs or DVDs and get a garden ornament out of it? Buy or make some googly ...

So grab your reusable shopping bags and prepare for adventure – Utah’s most magical thrift store awaits, filled with treasures that are ready for their second act in your home and your story.

Plastic waste has let common coots reuse nests year after year. Scientists have now used the trash layers to date how old nests are.

Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots, and you’ll find a surprising history of human plastic production. Much like tree rings hold climate records, bird nests preserve an unintentional archive — not ...

Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...

Since plastic never truly disappears, every bit of old nesting material remains as the birds stack new layers of material, one breeding season after another. Scientists have previously used ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...