Researchers say study of insects in Sussex first to find plastics ‘consistently turning up across an entire community of land ...

The world’s nations are gathering in France next month to tackle what the United Nations calls a global emergency facing the ...

Here’s a fact that may surprise you: The global fashion industry is a leading contributor to climate change. And because ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

Airborne microplastics and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in urban environments, with evidence linking inhalation ...

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Now, new research, published Friday in Science Advances, reexamines the U.S.’s role as a plastic consumer and concludes that the country has much more work to do at home to manage its waste.

Kerala government mobilizes volunteers, drones, and experts to mitigate environmental risks from capsized cargo vessel off ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

Explore shocking findings of microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. Discover the impact on Great Lakes ecosystems.

Amid growing concerns over the scale of marine pollution caused by the cargo ship that sank off the Kochi coast last week, the carcass of a dolphin washed ashore near the Valiayazheekkal Beach in ...

People might imagine that plastic’s lifecycle is an eternal circle of use and reuse. But the reality is that plastic is a one ...