Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Claims that microplastics are widespread throughout the human body are now being questioned. Microplastics are real — but ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Researchers say some widely reported findings of microplastics in human organs may be false positives Critics warn rushed ...

Plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is no longer just pollution; it's a home now. Scientists have found marine ...

The world is in a "plastics crisis" amid concerns plastic production has risen more than 200 times since 1950 and will triple again by 2060, a report has warned. The report, published in the Lancet ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

A pollution incident where millions of plastic pellets were washed up along the Sussex and Kent coast has been upgraded, ...

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

As a new legislative session begins in Tallahassee, a new bill in the state senate picks up support from both parties, aimed ...