Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean is often measured by asking a simple question: how many animals have swallowed plastic? That number matters, but a long-running project on Australian seabirds shows that ...

Since China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, plastic pollution has been having a growing impact on the people and ...

Earth's growing amount of plastic pollution can be amplified by climate change, with a recent study highlighting the ways extreme weather conditions can further spread and expose the toxic pollutant i ...

Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That’s how much plastic waste the world is predicted to be generating every year by 2050 if nothing ...

Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That's how much plastic waste the world is predicted to be generating every year by 2050 if nothing ...

What if the solution to two major waste problems – plastic pollution and used car batteries – was the same? Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a solar-powered reactor that does ...