This plastic-eating, self-powered robotic fish could mark the beginning of a new era in environmental cleanup, in which ...

A robotic fish from engineers at the University of Surrey is making waves in the fight against plastic pollution. It doesn’t ...

Commentary: Producing a significant amount of plastic waste doesn’t mean a country is a major contributor to plastic ...

Many measures have been initiated to reduce plastic pollution in Norway. Only a few of them will lead to extensive change and ...

Not-so-fun fact: our oceans hold 150 times more carbon dioxide than the Earth's atmosphere. Adding to that causes ocean ...

The ocean is Earth's largest carbon sink, absorbing about 25% of the CO₂ released by human activities. However, this uptake ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

The rate of plastic entering the oceans could accelerate 2.6 times by 2040 if left unchecked, say researchers. The first study describing the discovery of marine plastic debris was published in the ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X When you gaze at the ocean from any of South Carolina’s beaches, you witness an undulating calm ...

Instead of focusing solely on ramping up recycling, the Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act would require companies to cut the amount of plastic in their packaging—and nudge them toward ...