The tough challenges sea turtles face and their journey can help kids connect with the importance of environmental awareness.

Alterra president Jeremy DeBenedictis sees the facility as a solution to plastic pollution, seeks to ease neighbors' worries ...

Plastic pollution has emerged as a major health hazard, with microplastics now found in human organs and even brain and bloodstream. The UN has warned that plastic waste entering the oceans could ...

Tell the Story of What’s Possible. Fear alone doesn’t move people to act — imagination does. Show the alternatives, the breakthroughs, the innovators who are reshaping the world without plastic.

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ever mounted. Yet it hasn’t been enough to make a dent in the growing tonnage of discarded ...

In a new documentary, Plastic People, filmmakers Rick Smith and Peter Raymont delve into the plastic pollution that contaminates people from before birth and can bring about early death.

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic bottles and discarded fishing nets. My own research looks at how the ...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal clear ocean, live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. Scientist say the crisis is getting worse.

Washing household plastic containers in a dishwasher releases nanoplastic and microplastic pollution into wastewater, University of Queensland researchers have found. Dr. Elvis Okoffo from UQ's ...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have revealed the 10 countries responsible for producing the most plastic pollution, with India coming top of the list.

Local community leaders are raising awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevelant in the Charleston area.It’s a problem that’s been ...