Dean’s Honored Graduates for the class of 2025 in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin ...

South Carolina's coastal communities are investing millions of dollars in oyster-based living shorelines. But as demand for ...

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 ...

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

It is part and parcel of a plastic pollution crisis that experts say is ravaging ecosystems, exposing people to potentially harmful pollutants and stoking climate change. “Plastic pollution is one of ...

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 ...

The increase in single-use plastics has been dramatic since the 1980s. Today, plastic pollution is everywhere and has impacts on soil, food, air, and water. Practically every product has some sort ...

Certain species are adapting their diets, nesting habits, and even internal biology to make use of or tolerate plastic, creating a bizarre new form of evolution driven directly by human pollution.