Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the surface of the sea for 100 years, according to a new study. Scientists have long been puzzled by the fact that so ...

A recent blog from the Natural Resources Defense Council's ocean expert Leila Monroe includes a video shot by Santa Monica High School teacher Benjamin Kay following the "second flush" of rain in ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

I applaud Maya Livni's opinion column on curbing plastic pollution. "We can be a plastic-free Milwaukee if we demand action that protects our planet," Nov. 17. Our water, our bodies and Lake Michigan ...

The air in Geneva must have been thick; not with pollution, but with disappointment. After nine frantic days and one marathon all-night session that bled into the dawn, it all fell apart. Global talks ...

We like to think that tossing a plastic bottle into a recycling bin means we’ve done our part, but the […] ...