Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

Plastic is a major contributor to climate change, as the primary raw materials used in its creation are coal, natural gas, and crude oil—all leading sources of harmful emissions.

The world currently produces more than 50 million tonnes of “mismanaged” plastic waste each year, and some researchers project this flood of pollution into the environment will double by mid ...

Diagram of how plastic pollution is now altering major processes Journal Reference : Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, Bethanie Carney Almroth, Marcus Eriksen, Morten Ryberg, Sarah E. Cornell.

A bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a new study finds. Scientists ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people's bodies, according to a new study that ...

Countries are racing to finalize a U.N. treaty to end plastic pollution Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040.

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

The U.S. and 174 other nations failed to agree on a new treaty to reduce the plastic pollution contaminating our environment, food, water, and even our bodies.