Air pollution is well-known to be made up of soot, smoke, and "fine dust," but researchers in Germany have added tiny plastic particles to that list. According to a peer-reviewed ...

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As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

Although plastic never decomposes, most of the plastic pieces in the patch have broken down into microplastics, smaller than ...

For Earth Day on April 22, interesting facts including who invented it, why it's on that date, and how it turned into a global movement.

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found everywhere on Earth, from the highest mountain peaks to the deepest parts of the ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

GENEVA (AP) — As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United ...