Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

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Much of the plastic waste on land eventually finds its way into water bodies, where it can poison aquatic life and disrupt marine ecosystems by causing flooding and pollution. Plastic waste is one of ...

The executive order Trump signed will undercut the former administration’s 2022 initiative to phase out single-use plastics, including straws, containers and bottles, from federal buildings by 2032 ...

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 ...

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

President Donald Trump says he’s going to reverse a law banning the use of plastic straws in government buildings and ...

Global ocean plastics, projected to double to 300 million tonnes by 2040, further threaten vulnerable nations. For Fiji, ...

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The issue of plastic pollution on land and at sea needs to be addressed urgently. Delegates at a session of the U.N. Environment Assembly in 2022 agreed on the need for a legally binding treaty ...