Seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals along the California coast can suffer and even die after ingesting plastic, and the ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

A new review published in Frontiers in Science is calling for urgent action to avoid irreversible ecological damage by stemming the tide of microplastics entering the environment. Climate change ...

The effects of plastic on the three planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution: scientific knowledge is still patchy and unevenly distributed. The United Nations ...

Microscopic plastic pollutants drifting through the air are lodging in the lungs of birds, a new University of Texas at Arlington study finds. Researchers worldwide are increasingly alarmed by how ...

The negative effects of plastic pollution are even more extensive than thought, with a new study finding that nano- and microplastics pose a serious risk to biodiversity, agricultural production, and ...

GENEVA — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United ...

The fact that plastics pollute the environment and generate problems has been well-researched in many areas. However, there is little information on the impacts of plastics on climate and biodiversity ...