Growing up in the 1970s, Shaahina Ali recalled how she and the other kids would fight over pieces of trash on the beaches of ...

According to a new study, discarded face masks are environmental pollutants and potential threats to public health.

Askah Kerubo is spearheading a green beauty revolution by creating biodegradable hair extensions from discarded banana stems.

Microplastics are flooding the Gulf of Mexico, threatening marine life and seafood security, new research shows.

Tofino, the tiny surf townon Vancouver Island, recently announced that single-use plastic water bottles that measure one ...

The presence of microplastics in California’s precious – and limited – drinking water is of such growing concern that the ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Freshwater tidal marshes, critical for wildlife and coastal protection, are now serving as ...

"People need to understand." Study finds side effects of drinking from plastic water bottles grossly underestimated: 'Not something that should be used in daily life' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Without federal and local standards on how to deal with contaminants like arsenic and the carcinogen benzene, dozens of ...

At the height of the pandemic, the world rightly used more than 100 billion disposable face masks per month. Now the ...

This requires wide-scale behavioral change around consumption and disposal, in conjunction with wide-scale adoption of a new ...

Experts caution that nanoplastics and microplastics may constitute an emerging cardiovascular risk factor, with particles ...