Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the ...

A technology using bubbles —to clean up plastic pollution in waterways could be making its United States debut at the Grand ...

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

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

"During food intake, the water flows through the permeable funnel wall, is filtered, and the particle-free water is then ...

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Plastic pollution does more than litter landscapes and oceans. According to a new perspective article published in ...

What long-term threats does plastic pollution have on the Earth, and specifically marine life? This is what a recent study published in Nature Sustainability hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Senior leaders from the Philippine government, international development agencies, multinational companies, and civil society ...

Our world is increasingly plastic. Back in the 1950s, humanity produced just 5 million metric tons of plastic per year; today it’s 400 million metric tons. Since plastic can take hundreds or thousands ...