Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of paper straws. Here’s what to know about the history of plastic straws.

Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

An Australian study has provided the technology to rapidly accelerate widespread surveying of ocean microplastic ...

Many of the maps published in print and online showing ... The truth is, it's still difficult to build up an accurate picture of the sewage pollution situation in Scotland as there is less data ...

The UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Treaty (INC-5) negotiations in Busan, South Korea (2 December 2024), aimed to reach a binding global treaty to combat plastic pollution. This would have ...

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking, language acquisition, advanced reasoning and problem-solving, and ...

Microplastic pollution is helping to drive the rise in killer superbugs, an Oxford study has found for the first time. The presence of tiny fragments of plastic in the environment has been shown ...

That’s the test and premise of the Cleveland premier of Ripples of Plastic, the latest documentary ... the bane of the particle pollution world. Pretty much impossible to filter out of Lake ...

Plastic pollution has emerged as a critical environmental issue in Bangladesh, exacerbated by rapid urbanization, inadequate waste management infrastructure, and a lack of widespread recycling ...