Indian Masterminds recently reported on a video showing the heartbreaking consequences of plastic pollution in nature. The ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this ...

For consumers, plastics are cheap, strong, and useful, but plastic waste is problematic, because rather than decomposing, it breaks into microplastics when exposed to sunlight, heat, and physical ...

There often are tiny bits of plastic in the fish and shellfish we eat. Scientists are racing to figure out what that means for our health. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...