The celebrations for World Environment Day, which will have its epicenter in the Republic of Korea, are approaching and will ...

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of ...

Plastic pollution is among the most pressing environmental crises, and new research suggests that solutions may lie not only ...

Lesser mealworm larvae chewing through polystyrene to test their efficacy at battling the plastic pollution issue. Springer Nature They specifically found that the worm, which is the pupae of an ...

Negotiators from dozens of countries are in Busan, South Korea, trying to hammer out a global treaty to cut down on plastic pollution. It's their last chance before an end-of-year deadline to ...

Delegates from 175 countries spent last week in Busan, South Korea, attempting to negotiate a legally binding treaty to address global plastic pollution, but they failed to bridge significant gaps ...

During 2020, the world threw away over 250 million tonnes of plastic. A fifth of this plastic pollution was dumped straight into the environment, as many nations struggle to keep up with the mounting ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...