UNEP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Juan Bello talks about a new effort to equip students with the ...

Part 2 of Part 3 Series 4. Why is plastic pollution such a problem? There are three big reasons. First, plastic pollution can ...

The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store ...

The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever more widespread, as scientific expeditions conducted ...

Barker photographs debris from oceans all over the world and uses her images to spread awareness of plastic pollution ...

Evidence is accumulating that microplastics found nearly everywhere are also invading our bodies. What should you do?

An Australian study used pyrolysis coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Pyr-GC–MS) to analyze the presence of ...

Negotiators fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty at talks in South Korea More than 100 countries want the treaty to limit production as well as tackle cleanup and recycling ...

Renée Sharp, director of plastics and petrochemical advocacy at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council, called this ...

In a landmark move to combat marine pollution, Bangladesh's Department of Marine Fisheries (DoMF) has launched an initiative to free the Bay of Bengal from men creating plastic pollution that has been ...