Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Two City of Galveston agencies have partnered with the Washed Ashore Project to create a permanent piece of public art made ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic is not only littering Louisville roads and waterways, it is impacting our health. Join the global 'Plastic Free July' movement.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

New research on nanoplastics pollution and ‘chemicals of concern’ underscores the need for a strong agreement when ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

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