Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

In recent months, these plush toys have sparked a buying frenzy worldwide. Behind this craze is a millennial entrepreneur, Wang Ning. One of the store clerks explains that there is a three-month ...