Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of paper straws. Here’s what to know about the history of plastic straws.

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

A new study by US researchers has uncovered that babies born prematurely have higher levels of microplastics in their ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade ...

Those different uses require different types of plastics ... “And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...