Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic flow into the world’s oceans. What often looks like floating debris to ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

This new cellulose-derived plastic uses FDA-approved ingredients and salt-sensitive chemistry to avoid microplastic pollution ...

Researchers led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan have one-upped themselves in ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every ...

This story is adapted from A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies, by Matt Simon. The year was 1863, and famous billiard player Michael Phelan was worrying about ...

With 400 million tons of plastic produced annually, landfills are overflowing. Oceans are choking on microplastics. And global plastic production is on pace to triple by 2060. But a new wave of ...

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad and a PhD student studying environmental nanotechnology, plastic was on his mind. The year before, ...

LONDON - FEBRUARY 21: Some of the estimated 300,000 pieces of used chewing gum that litter Oxford Street are seen as pedestrians walk by, as capital cities are due to hold a joint summit for the first ...