To end the plastic crisis, the UN plastic pollution treaty must introduce new global binding rules to regulate production and consumption. These rules must include measures to ban, phase-out, ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, from our oceans to our backyards. But did you know plastic can even be hiding in places you ...

The IAEA is working with experts from all over the world to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its partners, the IAEA is researching and ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics, and take ...

And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste. All that pollution on beaches and in the ocean is harmful to both marine life and humans. So Adidas is trying ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

"Plastic pollution poses a serious threat to marine ... The Raman signal backscattered from a distant target was detected as a vertical line, and the hyperspectral information contained in each ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade ...

paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President Donald Trump waded into the issue when he signed an executive order ...