The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...

The adoption of any new policies such as bottle bills, reuse systems, EPR or certain food packaging bans could reduce disposal by 10% to 20% by 2040. Such changes could influence new jobs and ...

The Attorney General's lawsuit alleges the company discharged nurdles and other material from their chemical complex near Corpus Christi.

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 ...

Days after talks on a new international treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed, Sr. Patty Johnson was nonetheless feeling hopeful. Johnson was in Busan, South Korea, with three fellow Sisters of ...

Animals that hunt in the dark with sonar may not be able to tell junk from squids BEAUFORT, N.C. -- To whales that hunt with soundwaves in the lightless depths of the ocean, a torn plastic party ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Grants amounting $1.5 million has been awarded to fight plastic pollution threatening Hawaii’s coastlines. The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awarded ...

As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations office ...

Plastic waste choking Bhutan’s rivers is emerging as a serious threat, risking not just aquatic life but also threatening water safety and public health.