Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is ...

Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Plastic pollution is a big problem for our oceans and although in recent years, people have started cutting down on plastic consumption, as we have realized the effects plastic pollution can have on ...

The development hasn’t been straightforward. Early versions of the algorithm struggled with shadows and confused driftwood ...

A team of researchers has demonstrated a cutting-edge plant-based plastic bag that can dissolve in water without producing ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

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 ...

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

“During their long journey to Ogasawara Islands, the green turtles are likely to ingest and accumulate plastic distributed ...

We are living in the anthropogenic age, otherwise known as the plastic age. This came into clearer focus with the release of a study published this month on microplastics, or microfibers, in tap water ...

Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...