A groundbreaking development in materials science offers a potential solution to the planet’s mounting single-use plastic ...

"The size of the faucet highlights the magnitude of the problem. It makes the problem impossible to ignore. We're used to ...

Study from the University of Bayreuth shows how mountain bike tires contribute to microplastic pollution—though far less than cars.

Plastic pollution is not merely an environmental issue, it is an economic, social and political challenge as well ...

A study suggests 91% of the billions of bags used to ship online goods, including fashion end up in landfill or incineration.

Eleven-year-olds Aiden Crewe and Alastair Metson, and Euan Butler and Vibhu Vajpayee, both 10, discovered that they all wanted to help remove plastic ... The team’s biggest challenge was ...

Plastic pollution along Australia’s metropolitan coastlines has dropped by more than a third over the last decade, according to new research by the country’s national science agency.

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to ...