With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

Cleaning plastic containers in household dishwashers has been linked to both polluting wastewater and health issues. When these containers are cleaned, microplastics and nanoplastics are released ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

Read full article: Heavy winds and rough seas in Central Florida push vulnerable sea turtles ashore ORLANDO, Fla. – An Orlando startup called Wriggle Brew is pioneering a unique approach to two major ...

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, new issues emerged around wildlife.

On 14 August, exhausted UN delegates filed into a windowless plenary hall, after hours of intensive debate and little sleep, to watch their hopes of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution ...

New research points to an unexpected way plastic pollution may be influencing Earth’s climate system. A recent study suggests ...

SAN ANTONIO – The 89th Texas legislative session kicks off next Tuesday. Thousands of bills will be filed, including some focused on state environmental concerns. Protecting Texas’ resources and its ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean—a semi-enclosed marine basin—is one of the seas that accumulates more plastic waste from the continent, a ...

India, Jan. 9 -- William Wordsworth, the poet who believed nature to be humanity's greatest teacher, once wrote that a single impulse from the natural world could reveal more about moral good and evil ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...