As anyone who has walked through Virginia’s beautiful rivers, streams, and hiking trails can attest, there is plastic litter everywhere. It damages our waterways, harms our wildlife, and decreases our ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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