Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and ...

Some researchers have estimated that people consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles each year. If we add how ...

While bacteria can grow biofilms on any surface, researcher Gross found that microplastics supercharged this process. When ...

A good cutting board is much more than a simple block of wood. Each of these three boards has a shallow groove running along ...

Spring is dawning in the northern hemisphere, where most of the planet’s green land is situated. Trees are unfurling leaves ...

Vermont state chose to ban plastic carry-out bags on July 1, 2020, along with plastic straws, stirrers, and Styrofoam cups.

Plastic Problems” KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most ...

Though we're all about our reusable water bottles (and everything related to the Stanley tumbler), the love we have for fancy ...

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and a group of her colleagues are pressing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The borough is moving to set rules for vehicles carrying construction debris through the streets on their way to a disposal ...

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

NOAA warns the slivers of plastic have become “pervasive in natural and built environments” and are found in every ecosystem ...