Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, ...

The plastic pollution crisis has been widely blamed on a handful of Asian countries, but new research shows just how much the U.S. contributes.

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Coca-Cola plastic packaging jumped 21% since 2019 to 7.95 billion pounds in 2024 raising environmental sustainability ...

Plastic items are seen next to an artwork by Canadian artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong, titled 'The Thinker's Burden', a 6-meter-tall sculptural remix of Rodin's iconic Thinker, created ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Invisible microbubbles forming on everyday plastics can peel off microscopic fragments, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed across a wide range of marine areas in various forms, including floating ...

New research suggests microplastics are no longer just on land and in oceans but are now shaping the air above some of ...