Ropes and equipment used in fishing and aquaculture are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and litter along the ...

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

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

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

Bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which vessels drag weighted nets along the seafloor, has long been condemned by ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — In a study measuring neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions and satellite-based air pollution data, newborns exposed to higher levels of NO2 have a 30-35% higher risk of ...

If you think of air pollution, it's likely a vision of smog over a busy city will spring to mind. But what many people don't realise is just how bad indoor air pollution can also be. A new study ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

A team of university researchers has launched a planned 10-year project to examine pollution from Los Angeles' recent wildfires and study its long-term impacts on health. The researchers ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...