Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its ...

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

The Marine Conservation Society said more than 15,000 volunteers picked up three quarters of a million pieces of litter ...

Environmental organisations have warned that there is a “race against time” to clear up plastic pellets that are washing up ...

“175 plus countries agreed to negotiate a treaty to end plastic pollution, which is great news ... But Spring says it’s not just sea creatures who will suffer, “I would say human health ...

A research group led by Prof. DANG Fei from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

The operation to remove plastic washing up on East coast beaches following a ship collision in the North Sea could take weeks ...

Tiny plastic pellets found washed up on ... water and some on the shore between Old Hunstanton and Wells-next-the-Sea in ...

Plastic pellets which can cause significant harm to wildlife have washed ashore following a collision between a tanker and container ship in the North Sea last week, the coastguard has confirmed.

Wildlife charities have sounded the alarm about tiny plastic pellets washing up on English beaches. Nurdles are tiny pellets ...