A scientist has determined that the strange white blobs puzzling Newfoundland beachcombers are made of a plastic commonly ...

The chances for a stronger international agreement on limits to plastic production may have increased dramatically as the world nears a U.N. deadline for achieving a plastics treaty. The game changer: ...

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"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space." ...

Memorial University Earth science professor Hilary Corlett says testing shows the gunk is safe to touch and she hopes there ...

This resulted in plastic waste and other litter being washed into the ocean. Jeff Ayliffe of Group Editors paid a visit to ...

Using a bouquet of five survey methods to categorise types of plastics and determine their density and distribution along the ...

Penn State research links rising freshwater microplastics to the global increase in plastic production since the 1950s ...

Winchester MP has pledged support for tackling plastic pollution across the UK. Danny Chambers has pledged support for the initiative both locally and nationally.

Florence Descroix Comanducci, Director of the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories, presents Alejandro Garcia Moya, Director of the Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos (CEAC), with a plaque ...

Students picked up approximately 25 pounds of trash, including metal, wood used for construction/treated wood, rope, and 19 ...

The growing scourge of plastic pollution: in numbers Nations could agree in December on a world-first treaty to reduce the amount of plastic leaking into the environment which, if nothing is done, is ...