Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to ...

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

“And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which are melted down by the billions to make products each yea ...

TARRAGONA, Spain — European lawmakers this week started talks on how to solve an insidious facet of the plastic pollution crisis — one that's a brute reality for the Catalan province of Tarragona. The ...

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) The research, presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting in Denver, raised urgent questions about the role of plastic pollution in pregnancy ...

Plastic straws are seemingly providing a bonding moment for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk that may have been a long time in the making.

If we take a closer look at the failure of international efforts to combat plastic pollution, exemplified by the Fifth UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5), one thing stands out ...

Environmentalists are calling for urgent action after a "catastrophic" wave of plastic an other rubbish washed up on beaches in Bali. Cancer-linked PFAS are polluting our waterways, endangering ...

Plastic pollution is one of the rapidly growing environmental threats worldwide. In our country as well, it is posing a serious threat to our healthy living which is being talked about frequently by ...

As of January 1, 2025, Thailand has stopped importing plastic waste in an effort to curb toxic pollution in the country. Since 2018, Thailand has been a leading importer of plastic waste from ...