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

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

By Mike DiGirolamo Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

Microplastics could be disrupting how oceans absorb and store carbon, potentially undermining a natural buffer that helps ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

Chemists design biodegradable plastics inspired by nature, programming polymers to stay durable in use and break down safely ...

The bar is low, according to a new study, less than three sugar cubes worth could kill birds like Atlantic puffins, for ...

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

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the ...

Scientists have developed new models that show plastic waste is accumulating differently in oceans than previously believed. While most attention has been focused on plastic that collects in large ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...