No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

Negotiators fail to reach agreement on plastic pollution treaty at talks in South Korea More than 100 countries want the treaty to limit production as well as tackle cleanup and recycling, and ...

Europe’s heatwave moves east as row erupts in France over air conditioning Bob Vylan dropped from festivals in UK, France and ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

A team of researchers from ANSES, France’s food safety agency, has found that drinks sold in glass bottles actually contain ...

Scientists estimated that a green sea turtle could contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic, equivalent to approximately 10 ...

Scientists have developed a new method to identify and map plastic waste in urban areas using satellite imagery, offering new hope for tracking pollution and improving waste management in cities ...

Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when toxins in the oceans make landfall they imperil the health and well-being of more than 3 billion people, according to a new report by an ...

This suggests that even people without existing heart disease may be at risk. Notably, the strongest effects were seen in women, smokers, and people with high blood pressure—groups that may be ...