Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake.

Fish, birds, and marine mammals often ... metal straws, and water bottles can go a long way. Reducing plastic pollution is a shared responsibility that requires combined efforts.

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

After a 17-hour vigil in the waters, Baidyanath Halder's nets have yielded as catch hundreds of plastic bottles, cans, ...

These microplastics get swallowed by fish and other marine life and ... our challenges for more ideas to reduce plastic pollution: Say no to single use, Say no to plastic, plastic-free routine, Bring ...

CHILD: I found this piece of a plastic bottle. CHILD: I found this plastic ... into smaller and smaller parts which get eaten by small fish. Those small fish get eaten by bigger fish which can ...

Seabirds fill their stomachs with bottle caps instead of fish, and slowly starve ... and there is a push to halve the plastic pollution in the sea by 2030. But with plastic production soaring ...

It’s in the air that we breathe, the clothes that we wear, and in our waterways, and in the fish and the animals ... come from clothes and from plastic bags, bottles and other larger plastics ...

“Each of us has a credit card’s worth of plastic sitting in our stomachs right now. Microplastics are everywhere. It’s in the air that we breathe, the clothes that we wear, and in our waterways, and ...