Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Drains lead to the ocean! Careless and improper waste disposal is also a big contributor – illegal dumping of waste adds greatly to the plastic surge in our seas. Products that go down the drain Many ...

Plastics will indeed be the artifacts of our era, particularly in oceans, where the material invades ecosystems and floats around the world. More than five trillion pieces of plastic already fill ...

So how does plastic end up in the ocean? There are many ways that plastic gets into our oceans and seas. One way is litter. When plastic rubbish drops on the ground, it can end up in our drains.

Democrats use shoddy climate "science" to justify their crackdown on things as seemingly benign as plastic straws.

When people tend to think of plastic pollution and the oceans, they usually think of discarded soda bottles and containers washing up on our shores. But the issue of microplastics, which are much ...

Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up somewhere -- in landfills, but also in the ocean.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed artery-clogging plaques from over 250 patients and found ...

Supermarket shoppers buying tomato ketchup are being urged to make a change to help cut the amount of plastic waste in our ...

And then there is the issue of plastic polluting our oceans and waterways. A recent study by researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% ...

President Trump has signed an executive order to ban the use of paper straws by federal agencies, reversing a Biden ...

Amid the layers of microbes surrounding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists have discovered a plastic-eating fungus ...