Plastic pellets have begun washing up more than 60 miles away from the scene of a collision between two huge ships last ...

Banning plastic grocery bags ... risks increasing the use of alternatives that end up doing even more environmental damage, ...

A retrieval operation is underway after plastic pellets, likely spilled in a crash between a cargo ship and a tanker off the ...

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep ...

Plastic pellets which can be a risk to wildlife have washed up on shore following the collision between a tanker and a ...

A JRC-led study recently published in Marine Pollution Bulletin has revealed that the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, ...

The first ever assessment of litter in Mediterranean's deepest place located in Greece's eastern Ionian Sea has detected huge ...

In seabirds, the evidence is clearer. Nanoplastics have been linked with organ damage in sable shearwaters and are known to ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis ... according to the United Nations. In 2023, Ocean Conservancy volunteers collected more than 61,000 plastic ...

A bill in Olympia would make Washington’s recycling system transparent, accessible to more people, and cut out plastic and ...

Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows microplastics are ...