The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal ...

Recycling plastic helps reduce microplastic pollution, since plastics that end up in landfills can break down and leach into ...

“Microplastics are particles ranging from one micron to five millimetres in size. Most research is done on larger fragments, while we focused on extremely small materials, starting from 20 microns,” ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

A recent report from Oceana, a nonprofit conservation organization, projects that by 2030, Coca-Cola products will contribute ...

When researchers went searching for microplastics in sediments pulled from the bottom of Matagorda Bay and its surrounding inlets, they didn't find much. Most of their samples contained only tens to ...

Most models haven’t accounted for how microplastics may increase global warming by disrupting natural cycles that store ...

Evidence is accumulating that microplastics found nearly everywhere are also invading our bodies. What should you do?

Ana Brecevic's recent series, 'Plasticum,' reflects on the ever-growing problem of plastic pollution in the earth's oceans ...

Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is ...

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken”——– Leo Tolstoy, Russian ...

Litter on European beaches from the Baltic to the Aegean is falling, according to a new report. If you’ve ever rented in ...