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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

On the eve of World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the Global Plastics Hub, a tool that integrates data from multiple sources to support evidence-based ...

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Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, ...

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 ...

Emerging evidence suggests that environmental pollutants rarely act alone, yet most toxicological studies still assess them in isolation.

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

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 ...

Days after talks on a new international treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed, Sr. Patty Johnson was nonetheless feeling hopeful. Johnson was in Busan, South Korea, with three fellow Sisters of ...

Yaba College of Technology has unveiled its Plastogas Hub, a plastic-to-gas and upcycling facility designed to reduce plastic ...

At CES 2026, WES-Tec Global showcased a construction technology aimed at tackling plastic pollution ...