Plastic production has more than doubled in the past 20 years. In the US alone, it is estimated that the annual volume of ...

Plastic’s interference could also upset the ability of seagrass to capture and store carbon, says Mohammad Abu Noman, a PhD ...

Plastics are big business. Every year, there is about eight million tons of plastic waste that gets into the oceans. Millions ...

Recent videos and photos from Gir highlight the dangers of plastic littering to wildlife. Learn about the ban on plastic ...

Prince-Ruiz says the comparison with dry January is apt, but avoiding plastic may actually be a lot harder for many people ...

Earthday.org references studies showing that laboratory animals exposed to even low levels ... that consumers avoid ...

Much of the modern world was built on plastic but we should avoid treating it as something sacred and face up to the problems ...

Plastic food packaging, especially single-use containers, is a growing problem for the food industry. According to the UN ...

As Maine’s oyster industry grows, some farmers are taking the problem of ocean plastics into their own hands with innovations ...

"The plastic pollution crisis demands a fundamental shift in how we design, produce, use, and dispose of plastic." Google ...

Almost half of this waste is incinerated ... pollution has long been shown to cause irreversible impacts on ecosystems.

Plastic microbeads, those tiny troublemakers found in the personal care products of the early 1990s to the late 2010s, wreak ...