"This is so sad." Beachgoer shares disturbing video of sickening pollution flowing onto popular US beach: 'How is this even allowed?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Shedd Aquarium is working to keep Chicago beaches and waterways free of garbage and trash. They are ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

The world produces over 100 million tons of plastic a year, which could take hundreds of years to fully degrade, but ...

Plastic pollution is a huge problem—and it’s not too late to fix it. Correcting our plastic waste problem requires a fundamental change in thinking about how plastics are made, used, and ...

The problem is getting worse, with plastic pollution expected to soar in the coming decades. So in 2022, U.N. member states said they'd write a legally binding agreement to keep plastic waste out ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

As plastic waste piles up in the world’s landfills, sewer systems and oceans, the United Nations has set a goal to reduce plastic pollution by 80 percent by the year 2040. Inger Andersen, head ...

During plastic pollution treaty, the U.S. faces calls to do more Critics say the U.S. has been unwilling to push for measures in a global agreement that would drive big cuts in plastic waste.