Plastic pollution has spread to every corner of our planet, with remote beaches ending up with some of the highest densities ...

Miami Dade Commissioners are set to vote on a resolution to eliminate single-use plastics and styrofoam at county-owned ...

There’s no denying that plastics are bad for humans, animals, and the climate. As a fossil fuel product, plastics account for ...

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

An estimated 20 million people are thought to earn their livelihoods in the global waste industry by collecting, disposing, ...

Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia developed a new satellite imaging ...

A Memorial University scientist says the mysterious white blobs washing up on Newfoundland beaches are actually gobs of plastic — and they need to be cleaned up. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Environment and ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Memorial University scientist says the mysterious white blobs washing up on Newfoundland beaches are actually gobs of plastic — and they need to be cleaned up. Earth science ...

The team placed 14 pieces of various plastic types on a beach in southern Gippsland, Victoria, to test the BPDI usingoperated by Maxar Technologies. Data collected by the satellite showed that the new ...

(Bloomberg) -- Plastics are ubiquitous in natural systems, and tiny pieces of the material have been found everywhere from the Arctic to the Mariana Trench. To test a theory that satellites could ...

“It’s plastic. It needs to be cleaned up.” Images of strange white glob appearing on the province's beaches in Newfoundland are shown in this handout photo provided by the Environment and ...