When most people think about sharks and plastic pollution, they picture entanglement or stomachs full of debris. And that ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response agrees on updated draft 2026 Strategy and Action Plan on Marine Litter. ​IMO ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

Paul Einhäupl is a research associate of the Systemic Risks Group at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany. Linda Del Savio is a ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

Researchers found that microplastic and mesoplastic concentrations rise by one to four orders of magnitude during floods.

A new study reveals that urban tributaries flowing through Wuhan are significant sources of phthalate esters, a widely used class of plastic chemicals, to the Yangtze River, highlighting previously ...

In 2025, carbon pollution made 89% of record high daily temperatures set across 247 major U.S. cities more likely — and influenced risky extreme heat events around the globe. Hurricane Melissa, the ...

EPA Victoria has fined a major transport company, Toll Transport Pty Ltd, after its poorly loaded truck poured a blizzard of ...