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

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

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

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

Marine plastic pollution and nature conservation concept - penguin trapped in plastic net tsvibrav/Getty. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the world's largest environmental ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

Much plastic waste produced is single-use or packaging. Due to the difficulty of recycling plastic, less than 6% is recycled. The rest is landfilled, incinerated, or in our environment.

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Now a newly published algorithm might change all that, and ...