Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...

Discover the unseen consequences of plastic pollution in our freshwater ecosystems at a special screening of “Ripples of Plastic,” a documentary uncovering the impacts of microplastics across the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The film follows journalist Ziya Tong as she learns the latest science on microplastics and examines the microplastic pollution in her own body.

Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, urges UNEA-7 to act boldly for a sustainable future, stressing that environmental ...

The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

Britta Denise Hardesty receives funding from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and from The United Nations Environment Programme and in the past has received philanthropic funding ...

California has sued ExxonMobil, alleging that the company deceived the state’s residents for decades by promoting recycling as the antidote to the plastic waste crisis “despite knowing that recycling ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has found that Antarctica's only native insect is already ingesting ...

The Global anti-plastic pollution expedition called Plastic Odyssey is docking in Cape Town from 8 to 22 December 2025, ...