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

Two City of Galveston agencies have partnered with the Washed Ashore Project to create a permanent piece of public art made ...

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

At the dawn of the millennium, a group of eminent scientists began compiling a list of the threats they felt were most likely ...

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 ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates ...

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

New research reveals the impact of discarded plastic materials on young birds—with chicks dying after becoming entangled in ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

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

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