Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

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

Algalita Marine Research and Education, a local nonprofit, has revamped its educator mini-grants program to support teachers ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

A1. Conduct evaluations to ensure that fossil fuel extraction, as well as petrochemical and plastic production facilities, comply with regulatory requirements; A2. Continue to make progress reviewing ...

New York must pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act. Plastic pollution is impacting our environment and health. Microplastics and toxic chemicals used in plastic production are ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

The world’s plastic crisis isn’t simply environmental; it’s existential. A recent study in the journal Nature Medicine found that brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics (equivalent to a ...