Plastic pellets, bio-beads and other microplastics are polluting coastlines around the world, with new research showing sharp ...

For the first time, pollutants from burning fossil fuels have been found embedded in corals, offering scientists a potential new tool to track the history of pollution, finds a new study. For the ...

Countries will resume negotiations in Geneva on August 5, 2025, on a global plastics treaty. Previous talks have stalled amid deep divisions over key issues. To make the treaty meaningful, countries ...

This common item is responsible for 25% of all microplastic pollution — and it's worse than we thought. A recent study found high levels of two potentially deadly chemicals in human urine. The study ...

Trash dumped into stretches of the Willamette River between Salem and the Columbia River has gotten so bad that local agencies may need to come up with ways to address it, according to a state report ...

A Danville wastewater treatment plant is releasing high concentrations of forever chemicals into the Dan River, and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality isn’t doing anything about it. “It ...

It feels abstract until they see themselves in the story.’ If you search for your city on a new map and zoom in, you can see pollution drifting from factories, power plants, and ports into your ...