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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

By Kizito CUDJOEAs Ghana grapples with rising plastic pollution, WASH Technical Specialist at World Vision Ghana Yaw Attah Arhin has called for adopting systemic circular economy solutions instead of ...

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

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

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

Eco-Kutumb was an idea that promoted green weddings using banana leaf plates, clay pots, fresh flowers, recycled paper, and ...