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

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

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

Two City of Galveston agencies have partnered with the Washed Ashore Project to create a permanent piece of public art made ...

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

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of ...

The millions of tons of plastics, microplastics, and nanoplastics dumped into the environment over the last several decades ...

Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable.

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

Microplastics – pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters – were found in 55 juvenile northern hogsucker fish in tributaries of the Cheat, Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...