Discover the latest findings from the International Marine Litter Research Unit as experts investigate how plastic waste ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific evidence, we see how microplastics permeate every sample of beach sand across ...

A year ago, millions of plastic pellets escaped from a cargo ship and ended up on beaches. Sam Beech's shop encourages zero-food-waste shopping with customers filling their own containers. Call-outs ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how ...

Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review of the ...

Ahead of the expected finalization of a UN global plastics treaty, a group of international experts calls for a greater focus on health impacts when considering plastic pollution. The Health Policy ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

Plastic waste pollutes our oceans, food, even our bodies. This week, 175 countries are trying to create a treaty to reduce that waste. Nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, who produce fossil fuels ...

Plastics are a crucial part of modern life, however tens of millions of tons of plastic waste is disposed of each year, much of which ultimately ends up in the ocean. Microplastics have been found in ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...