Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

Reducing plastic use this year should be on everyone’s radar, although it won’t be easy. According to the United Nations, ...

Plastics are a problem that knows no boundaries. These intractable incarnations of fossil fuels have found their way into the ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

I listened as Dr. Shanna Swan described her decades of studies that show that endocrine disrupters (which mess with our hormone systems) in plastics, in pesticides, in soil and in our food may be ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1864 Scientific American published a competition launched by a billiard-table ...

Six years ago, Julia Marsh gathered with friends in the kitchen of her small Brooklyn apartment. She’d ordered some flour-like powder derived from seaweed off the internet, and — after watching ...

Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...

Ever wondered why that convenient plastic container might deserve a side-eye? The stuff we use daily without a second thought could be doing more than just holding our leftovers or making our lives ...