They're looking at plastic pollution, concerned, after a 2019 WWF study showed people consume roughly 5 grams, or the equivalent of a credit card, in microplastics weekly.

Microplastics in the ocean are a serious problem for wildlife, like sea turtles in Texas. Companies creating the problem ...

If you don’t understand the scale of a problem, how can you effectively take steps to address it? How can you know what is ...

The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when ...

Slated for 4:30 p.m. on Friday, the showing will be followed with a Q&A featuring Jessica Winter of Solid Waste Authority of ...

The final round of United Nations-brokered talks aimed at tackling plastic pollution opened in South Korea (in December) with deep divisions over the need to stem the rising flood of the material ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral ...

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement despite a pledge to do so by the year-end. The issue of plastic pollution on land and at sea needs to be ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers suspect may be causing respiratory and other ...

Wildfires contribute to harmful fine particle pollution, which is at levels bad for human health in the area even before the wildfires. The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Wildfires are a sight that we in Colorado are, sadly, all too familiar with. They cause destruction to communities and kick up smoke for miles. While are ...