Under pressure to reduce environmental waste from single-use containers, major consumer companies including Procter & Gamble Co, Unilever Plc and The Body Shop are rolling out more products in refillable form. P&G, with roughly $68 billion US in annual revenue, said it has invested millions in creating and testing refills for detergents over the years…

Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: Plastic bottles: How we got here (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images) Last week, Coca-Cola was named the most polluting brand in the…

A Toronto lawyer and prominent road safety advocate is pushing the province to implement a controversial proposed technology that would allow police to test cellphones at the side of the road to see if drivers are using them behind the wheel. It’s been dubbed the “textalyzer,” and it’s a device at the centre of a debate in several U.S.…

Apple TV Plus, which launches Nov. 1, is betting on A-list content and a lower subscription price as a means of competing in the increasingly saturated market of streaming services. Its headline series is The Morning Show, a high-production-value show starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as TV journalists in the post-#MeToo era. The cast also includes The Office‘s Steve Carell and Spotlight‘s…

Forget reheated, freeze-dried space grub. Astronauts are about to get a new test oven for baking chocolate chip cookies from scratch. The next delivery of supplies for the International Space Station — scheduled for liftoff this weekend — includes the Zero G Oven. Chocolate chip cookie dough is already up there, waiting to pop into…

The measles virus has not only made a devastating resurgence worldwide, but it may also cripple the immune system’s ability to fight off other infections in the long term, two new studies suggest. The highly contagious measles virus causes coughing, rashes and fever and can lead to serious complications. Last month, the World Health Organization…