Learn more about the marine fungi that could be conditioned to help clean up Hawai’i’s beaches.

Plastic Beach, an Encinitas-based nonprofit, is tackling a major environmental challenge: soft plastic pollution.

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

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

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

“And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which are melted down by the billions to make products each yea ...

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution concluded in Busan ... plastic collection drives to remove bottles and ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture ... a scientific paper published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, a British journal ...

At the head of beautiful Loch Long in Argyll sits one of Scotland's biggest plastic problems. A combination of prevailing ...

Sri Lankan Christians have joined hundreds of people in cleaning litter from beaches as part of a nationwide campaign aiming ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...