# While the jury is still out, according to some scientists, on the extent of harm posed by microplastics, the negative impact on human health of some of the chemicals used to manufacture plastics has ...

The azure waters of Lamu's coastline, once pristine and teeming with marine life, now face a mounting crisis as abandoned boats and vessels litter the archipelago's shores.This environmental hazard is ...

South by Southwest, or SXSW, is best known as a music, film, and comedy festival. But over the past few years, more and more ...

Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their ...

Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks–led study. The ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

Oceana estimates Coca-Cola will release 1.33B pounds of plastic into oceans by 2030. The company dropped its reuse pledge.

For some of the ocean's top predators ... This implies that any change to the twilight zone's food web, such as through increased fishing, could negatively impact fisheries of more shallow ...

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

The ads watchdog has censured OceanSaver for making unsubstantiated environmental claims, following a complaint from homecare ...

Creating a material of this nature requires remarkable scientific ingenuity because bacteria do not naturally make anything that resembles nylon Plastic surrounds us. It wraps our food ...