Southern Water has introduced new devices to speed up the removal of biobeads that washed up on a beach from a water ...

A recent spill of bio-beads—small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s—has brought ...

From the Galapagos Islands to India, tiny plastic pellets known as nurdles are turning up in some of the world’s most ...

Cypress Toomey, a campus organizer with TexPIRG Students, said it’s critical to protect waterways and the environment from plastic pollution. They can break down into smaller pieces, eventually ...

A new study shows that microplastics in the natural environment are colonized by pathogenic and antimicrobial resistant ...

Spanish state prosecutors are investigating the presence of numerous small plastic pellets along the northwest coastline, spilled from a transport ship. There are fears that the pellets may have toxic ...

The tiny plastic beads have troubled environmentalists for years. Activists hope the governor will recognize the threat now ...

Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, third and fourth entries here. BENTON HARBOR, ...

In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain’s northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a ...

Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach. Tiny pearl-shaped pieces of plastic, known as ...

Thousands of tiny white plastic pellets from a container aboard a cargo ship being unloaded at at the Napoleon Avenue Wharf in New Orleans ended up littering the east bank batture near the Chalmette ...

This story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you ...