West Michigan ... north of Grand Rapids, a new chemical recycling facility threatens to disrupt the very environment that makes this region so special. Chemical recycling has been presented as a ...

The small plastic ... pollution is linked to people, Kidd said. Scientists have found higher levels of microplastics pollution where there are more people, Kidd said, such as Lakes Ontario and ...

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy is considering Michigan Potash's air pollution and wetlands permits, and recently extended the deadline for public comment on the air ...

Fish-eating gulls and terns nesting on Michigan shoreline areas known to ... a biologist who studies environmental health effects at the Grand Rapids-based university, from 2010 to 2019 looked ...

What to know about the larger fight over single-use plastics after Trump's executive order against paper straws.

(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 pollution is no longer just an environmental issue, it’s now a human health concern. A startling new study from the University of New Mexico has found that microscopic plastic particles ...

“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 ...

Microplastic pollution is helping to drive the rise in killer superbugs, an Oxford study has found for the first time. The presence of tiny fragments of plastic in the environment has been shown ...