Discarded rope, fishing nets and fishing net pieces often end up on island beaches, working free from boats and structures ...

Scientists in Latin America are sounding the alarm over the presence of microplastics in freshwater sources — and the ...

Artist Tom Deininger creates sculptures of wildlife using recycled trash, diverting it from piling up in nature.

In the near-future space travels of the Bong Joon Ho film, “Mickey 17,” Robert Pattinson plays an Expendable – a person ...

A UK court on Thursday upheld lengthy prison terms handed to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani ...

Fishing nets, rope, packing straps, bags and plastic cups were among the items discovered in a compacted mass during an investigation by Smass. A large number of entanglements involve humpback and ...

She is also a Certified Stress Management Coach. A recent study found a whole plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. Pretty wild, right? Some researchers have ...

Used to make cooking spatulas, takeout boxes and kitchen peelers, black plastic made headlines after a study last year claimed that the material contained toxic flame retardants which could be ...

Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. Scientists warn that by 2040, plastic waste in our seas could triple, threatening marine life and potentially our ...