As the amount of plastic going into waterways is increasing, researchers and environmental groups are documenting how plastic is impacting wildlife and the environment. The plastic is everywhere — in ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time the devastating physiological and behavioural effects on fish exposed to the tiny bits of plastic pollution clogging the world's ...

Pirougue on the Sangha River, Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Bayanga, Central African Republic The plastic pollution crisis has reached critical levels, permeating every corner of our ecosystems, ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

EU cracks down on plastic pellet pollution despite industry exemptions New EU regulations could cut plastic pellet pollution by 74%, but exemptions for smaller companies and reliance on self-reporting ...