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 ...

“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 ...

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

The charity said it was an issue right across the country and that "only a small fraction of locations ... and help each other out" by joining litter picks, and reporting dumped waste to the council.

Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of ...

They were part of a national agency that contracts workers and volunteers, a total of 200,000 in 35,000 locations across the ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.

Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more ...