Plastic waste carried by flash floods has built up along the Dead Sea’s shrinking shore, creating natural rings that reveal ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose.

Typically when people hear about plastic pollution, they might envision seabirds with bellies full of trash or sea turtles with plastic straws in their noses. However, plastic pollution poses another ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

A new eco-friendly plastic called LAHB has shown it can biodegrade even in the extreme environment of the deep ocean, unlike conventional plastics that persist for decades. In real-world underwater ...

Every piece of sea glass has a story − but sea glass could be on the decline. Olga Pankova/Moment When you stroll along a beach, you may look down and spot colorful bits of worn glass mixed in with ...

Herminia Din's purse is made of grocery bags. Inside, she has a ton of reusable items, from a metal straw to a foldable water cup. She takes recycling and reusing very seriously. In her work as a ...

Every year, an estimated eight million metric tons of land-based plastic enters the world’s oceans. But when marine researchers have measured how much of this plastic is floating on the water’s ...

KERATSINI, Greece — It was Lefteris Arapakis’s first expedition on a fishing boat, and he didn’t expect what the nets would pull up. There were scorpionfish, red mullet and sea bream. But there was ...

Causes of asthma, obesity, chronic diseases in children: Early-life exposure to plastic-related toxins is linked to a wide range of health problems, including asthma, obesity, heart disease, ...