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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microplastics – pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters – were found in 55 juvenile northern hogsucker fish in tributaries of the Cheat, Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.

Plastic waste is a growing issue worldwide. According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a truck load of plastic ...