For several years, conservationists have been puzzled by thousands of brightly colored rubber bands showing up on an uninhabited island off the UK’s southwestern tip. Their new theory is that sea ...

They’re in your drawers, on your desk, wrapped around your vegetables—and yet you probably don’t give them a second thought. Rubber bands are one of those everyday objects that quietly get the job ...

British conservationists have figured out why a protected island near the UK’s southwest coast is littered with thousands of elastic bands. Mullion Island is an uninhabited island on the eastern coast ...