The current administration continues to senselessly undermine efforts to reduce single-use plastics. But plastic never was and never will be disposable, and neither are the people it poisons. Plastic ...

Plastic bottles have become a convenient and widely used option for storing and consuming drinking water across the globe.

Plastic pollution harms wildlife, disrupts ecosystems, and even enters the food chain, posing risks to human health. Microplastics have been detected in the bloodstreams of people and farm animals, ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths.

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers ...

Fossil fuels drive climate change, pollution, disease, species loss, and injustice. A review urges governments to stop fossil ...

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.

27, 2025 — Microscopic plastic pollutants drifting through ... 31, 2025 — Low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of metabolic-associated fatty ...

The results show plastic pollution "remains a huge problem for our marine environment", the charity said. During MCS beach cleans, volunteers go through stretches of beach picking up items of ...

“It’s really scary,” says Marcus Eriksen, a marine scientist at the 5 Gyres Institute, a nonprofit plastic pollution research organization, who was not involved in the study. The researchers ...

Air purifiers already in Utah schools play a key role in improving student health and performance. Without funding to ...