Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

President Trump delights in alarming opponents and aiding friends in polluting industries By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue ...

Join the conversation in our Facebook group. Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling processes.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping ... This means more plastic in our oceans, more greenhouse gas emissions and more toxic ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

The Ocean Cleanup project’s goal is to remove half of the plastic pollution by 2027 using floating barriers anchored to the seabed. A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the ...

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...

Charleston Waterkeeper and others have found almost 30,000 plastic pellets littered on beaches and marshes, while a bill to ...

The giant floating pipes will be driven by the wind, waves, and currents. His system is projected to clean 50% of the garbage patch in five years. The Ocean Cleanup has started the assembly ...