According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

Countries across the Asia-Pacific region are stepping up efforts to reduce plastic waste through national policies, local ...

When it comes to the ocean, not everyone fully understands its significance to human life, marine biodiversity, and the ...

For years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s ...

A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution ...

Opinion: Wake Forest University School of Law's Sarah Morath says the federal response to plastic pollution means state and ...

And of that waste, a staggering 6.3 billion tons ... of a fish into the flesh we actually eat. (See We Know Plastic Is Harming Marine Life. What About Us?) He worries more about the things that ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean — a semi-enclosed marine basin ...

DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir has generated more than 225,000 tonnes of plastic waste over the last five years, highlighting the region’s growing environmental challenge due to plastic pollution. According ...