The U.S. accounts for roughly 10% of the waste, according to several experts, and Tao estimated the U.S. would be producing roughly 2 million metric tons of solar waste a year by 2043, but other ...

The first study of microplastics in Texas coastal sediment was funded through a local environmental activist’s landmark legal ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

The world's largest polluters are also the safest from the environmental damage they help create—while the countries least to ...

The White House’s executive order last month purports to authorize mining in international waters – against the authority of ...

“Microplastics are particles ranging from one micron to five millimetres in size. Most research is done on larger fragments, while we focused on extremely small materials, starting from 20 microns,” ...

Fish farms boomed globally in recent decades — more than half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture — but it’s not a ...

The sargassum problem is just one of many creeping slow onset events that is being exacerbated by climate change.

When researchers went searching for microplastics in sediments pulled from the bottom of Matagorda Bay and its surrounding inlets, they didn't find much. Most of their samples contained only tens to ...

Antibiotics, antidepressants and other drugs frequently leach into the environment, where they can impact ecosystems and ...

Gov. Ned Lamont speaks at a press conference about cuts to AmeriCorps programs in Connecticut. Credit: / CT Mirror Until last week, ...