Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic waste is littered across the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, in April 2021. Countries are gathering in Geneva ...

In places like Indonesia, plastic refuse is often burned in unregulated low-tech furnaces that pose grave health risks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic nurdles at the beach in Sri Lanka. (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to ...

Enck's love for the environment was solidified by growing up near the Catskill Mountains.

Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...

Britain has banned everything from plastic straws to cutlery, but one type of plastic pollution keeps washing up and shows no sign of diminishing - nurdles. A mind-boggling amount of the lentil-sized ...