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

When people walk into the recycling facility of FirstStar Fiber in Omaha, they see bags of trash from floor to ceiling. But it’s not going to a landfill. “What makes FirstStar recycling unique is then ...

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

Six months after the worst firestorm in Los Angeles County history, a look at the Eaton and Palisades fires cleanup, ...

Kansai International Airport in Japan faces a sinking problem. Built on an artificial island, it has subsided significantly ...

How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...