Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

Plastics are everywhere—from your phone case to the containers holding your food. They're cheap, light, and strong, which makes them incredibly useful. But their strength is also their downfall. Once ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week stymied implementation of landmark state environmental legislation that would have limited the ...

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

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean — a semi-enclosed marine basin ...

Plastic is polluting oceans and national park beaches alike ... which they painstakingly counted under a microscope. What they found was alarming — microplastics were present in every sample. Even our ...

What comes to mind when you see crows perched on electric wires, suddenly getting electrocuted or labourers toil under the ...

From the frozen ice caps of the polar regions to the warm waters of the tropical coral reefs, from deep sea vents to shallow seagrass beds, the oceans contain the greatest diversity of life on Earth.

While recycling aims to reduce plastic waste, the practice itself could be making matters worse by producing an even more ...