Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Commander in Chief is fed up with paper straws and doing something about it. On February 7, the President of the United States ...

Today, a straw made of precious metal like silver or gold might seem like an extravagance. But really, if you sipped out of one, you’d be paying homage to our oldest known straws. Recently, scientists ...

Many people believe that plastic straws are harmful to the environment because of how long they take to decompose, but these new paper straws might actually be deadly. Plastic straws make seabirds, ...

“Eco-friendly” paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. In the first analysis of its kind in Europe, and only the second in the world, ...