A small islet located just a few meters from the port of Rio de Janeiro, with its beaches covered by about 80 tons of trash, serves as a stark reminder of the failure of the renewed promise by the ...

We appreciate the timely call to action by Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would sign an executive order “ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws, ...

Global population, now at 8.1 billion, has intensified human activities, significantly contributing to pollution across land, ...

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board says lakes Ontario and Michigan show greater ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching ...

The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in a new study, led by researchers from the British Antarctic ...

Nearly every sample of seafood in Oregon contains microscopic, cancer-causing plastics, a new study from Portland State ...

Fish also suffer harmful effects from eating microplastics. Microplastics can damage their intestines, gills, and brain among ...

Under the proposed bill, the Iowa Utilities Commission could not consider climate change when ruling on a hazardous liquid pipeline.