Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

A study by the Asian Development Bank shows how everyday plastic waste in China’s Mulan River Basin is washed from land into rivers and eventually the ocean, with solid waste and agricultural plastics ...

The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, ...

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows that it is reshaping the chemistry and biology of water itself, creating ...

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account ...

Surfing's very own Bruce Wayne, the inimitable Ryan Harris, has developed a realistic solution to the plastic pollution crisis by turning ocean-bound plastic into surfboard fins and other products and ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. The primary concern regarding plastic pollution is ocean plastic pollution.

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists from HR Wallingford, in Oxfordshire, and Queen Mary University created a ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...