This means all plastics end up in the Indian Ocean through rain or wind. Some residents who visit beaches for recreational purposes on weekends also contribute to plastic pollution as they carry with ...

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

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 ...

They have names like Attenborough, Teddy, Desmond, and Thoreau—and like their namesakes, they are committed conservationists.

Each year on November 3rd, World Jellyfish Day is celebrated to raise awareness about jellyfish and their ecological ...

This is the touching moment a helpful dog collected pollution from the sea in China. The brown pooch dived into the choppy water to retrieve trash drifting to the shore in Shandong on November 3.

Microplastics have been steadily increasing in freshwater environments for decades and are directly tied to rising global plastic production since the 1950s, according to a new study by an ...

This is the last critical moment to prevent irreversible economic, health, and environmental damage from plastic pollution.

Advocacy groups say we’re at a “key moment” to reduce plastic production and protect communities from plastic-related ...