Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

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

The main source of ocean plastic pollution is land-based—80% of plastic in the ocean originates on land. But what does that really mean? Where is it coming from? There are three main ways plastic ends ...

Gaspar/IAEA) Over 5000 kilometres from the nearest major land mass, Henderson Island is perhaps the ... to change that fate and protect marine life and the environment from plastic pollution. With its ...

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 ...

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

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

Indigenous land, water and air are being contaminated ... said she's more hopeful than ever that an ambitious treaty to end plastic pollution will be adopted on schedule. Over the past week ...

By virtue of its wealth, the northern hemisphere — measured as the areas covered by NAFTA, the European Union, and China — is far ahead of the south in creating plastic pollution. In UCSB’s ...

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 ...

paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade. On Monday, President Donald Trump waded into the issue when he signed an executive order ...