Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. In a world that ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, from our oceans to our backyards. But did you know plastic can even be hiding in places you ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which ...

Nanoplastics -- plastic particles smaller than 1 m -- are widely dispersed because of their low weight. A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Climate change mitigation strategies that don’t address overconsumption and reduce dependence on fossil fuel-derived ...

This week, President Donald Trump reversed course on a Biden administration environmental initiative that had eliminated single-use plastics like straws in federal buildings. The common alternative: ...

If we are to engage in a discussion of pollution of any kind, it should begin with the consequences. Take air pollution.

The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...