Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully developed a new type of plastic that is strong, transparent and, above all, ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Plastic Free July is designed to help people reduce their use of single-use plastics and improve recycling practices.

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...