Researchers are raising red flags about a growing threat to marine life that's especially harmful for species like orcas and ...

Within 15 years, a garbage truck's worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every second.

The good news about plastic pollution is that public awareness has become widespread of the gravity and harm of pollution by this now-ubiquitous manmade material. As a result, most people want to see ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 20, 2024) – Plastic is everywhere – more than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter the ocean each year, and the United States is ...

Covering 70% of the earth's surface, oceans provide climate regulation by absorbing 25 percent of all carbon emissions as a crucial sink for anthropogenic carbon, which subsequently enables the ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif (June 30, 2023) – More than 10 million metric tons of plastics enter ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

To reduce trash, some states want to charge companies whose packaging isn’t recyclable. Nashville is growing – and so are its piles of trash. The Middle Point Landfill, in nearby Murfreesboro, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a dirty little secret lurking in your laundry. A single load of laundry sends 15 million microfibers through our waterways. Microfibers are tiny little strands of plastic that ...