A Monmouth County woman and Clean Water Action are fighting against single-use plastic pollution across New Jersey. Here's ...

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Every egg case examined contained plastic particles, raising urgent questions about how pollution may be affecting sharks ...

More than 350,000 chemicals are used worldwide, and many find their way into the ocean through plastic pollution. As plastics accumulate in coastal waters, they continuously leach bioactive additives ...

"Antarctica still has much lower plastic levels than most of the planet, and that’s good news," he said. "Our study suggests that, right now, microplastics are not flooding thes ...

The U.S. state of Texas has filed a lawsuit over chemical manufacturer Dow Chemical’s alleged pollution in the Gulf of Mexico – currently referred to as the Gulf of America by the U.S. government – ...

Even the most remote regions of the globe are not free from plastic pollution. In a study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have ...

A semitruck overturned on a west Michigan highway and spilled plastic "nurdles" into the Kalamazoo River, state environmental ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient ...

Waste management capacity expansion key to curb plastic pollution: Ocean Cleanup founder ...

A new study from Ocean Conservancy is sounding a stark warning about the deadly impact plastic pollution is having on Florida’s most iconic marine life.

ZARANJ (Pajhwok): As plastic pollution grows into a serious environmental and health challenge in Afghanistan, women in northwestern Nimroz province are rejecting plastic bags in favour of cloth ones ...