Peanut is a notable example of how plastic pollution can harm wildlife — and how an individual animal’s story can be a powerful tool in promoting social change. Last weekend, more than 250 people from ...

Firefighters responded to a fire at a local golf course on Sunday. Crews rescue dog, kayakers in distress at Smith Mountain Lake First responders rescued two kayakers and their dog struggling against ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to laws addressing plastic pollution, the vast majority of states need improvement to reduce, reuse and recycle, according to the new United States of Plastic Report from ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, which outlines opportunities to protect communities from the impacts of plastic production and ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...

Experts say small changes at home can significantly reduce microplastic pollution. Here's our guide to lowering microplastics in your laundry loads.

Close to 200 nations from across the globe were expecting to begin this month with full knowledge of the world's first-ever plan to "end plastic pollution," however, the UN's aspirations of striking a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Francesca Dominici is director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. The World Health Organization 2024 report recently urged ...