California received the highest score and Mississippi the worst in a new nationwide ranking of state laws designed to reduce ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

The multi-stakeholder workshop on the United Nations Plastic Treaty INC5.2, which was concluded in Kathmandu today, has ...

New research claims that tons of invisible nanoplastics are hiding in our oceans, raising even more concerns about plastic ...

As plastic pollution continues to rise globally, research led by the University of Portsmouth will investigate how Viet Nam ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that despite two years of negotiations among 175 countries, a global treaty to end plastic pollution has stalled. The lack of progress ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...