Community-led research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents ,and eight ...

Nanoplastics entered the Atlantic via rivers, sunlight-driven plastic breakdown, and even through the air with rain or dust.

"It is our hope that we find ways to build more bridges than we seem to have burned in the last sessions of negotiations," ...

Most of the plastic bottles and caps that pollute the Pacific coasts of Latin American countries are of local origin, and are ...

The United States is in a country-wide state of plastic paralysis. Sustainable plastic alternative UBQ Materials has one ...

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Researchers have demonstrated a new eco-friendly plastic that decomposes in deep ocean conditions. In a deep-sea experiment, the microbially synthesized poly(d-lactate-co-3-hydroxybutyrate) (LAHB) ...

Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli that relies on small molecules from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles to survive. The ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

In a valley where people moved to escape “the ravages of pollution,” a plant that changes plastic into synthetic oil isn’t welcome, supervisors of Butler Twp. said.