Dutch customs officials are investigating the discovery of thousands of waterlogged cigarette packs that washed up along the ...

Australian seabirds build with fishing nets, ospreys in North America use baler twine, South American city-birds pick up cigarette butts and common blackbirds in Europe nest with plastic bags.

RICHMOND -- Eight days into the 60-day 2012 Virginia General Assembly, two tax bills are on their way to extinction. Measures to raise the state cigarette tax and impose a new tax on plastic bags ...