While climate change and plastic pollution are often discussed separately, the connection between them is far more dangerous than most realize. In this revealing video, explore how plastic — from its ...

Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on how far the proposed agreement should go. The ...

Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Plastic pollution is so widespread in the Amazon that it’s turning up in fish, birds, manatees, and even remote streams far ...

Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global ...

Plastic pellets, bio-beads and other microplastics are polluting coastlines around the world, with new research showing sharp ...

Products made from plastic have become a critical problem, polluting bodies of water worldwide. Plastics in oceans have become so ubiquitous that a term was coined — ocean-bound plastic — to describe ...

Geneva — Negotiators working on a landmark treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement during talks that extended into Friday in Geneva. Nations were meeting ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...