It's no secret: when we savour a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we're not just consuming valuable omega-3s ...

By 2050, the world is expected to generate more than enough plastic pollution to cover the entire island of Manhattan with a ...

Representatives of grassroots groups are in South Korea pushing for a cut in worldwide plastics production and pollution ...

"The degradation rates of the CDA foams were … the fastest of any plastic reported in the ocean." Researchers develop new ...

Taken together, however, the report found 80 per cent of all microplastics found in Canada are fibres shed from textiles or ...

The accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in marine organisms, particularly fish, eventually makes its way onto our plates ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the first known evidence of microplastics in the human brain. But what does it mean?

Two Princeton graduates have developed a new filtration system to filter harmful microplastics out of the water supply in Atlantic City.

Scientists claim they have been subjected to verbal abuse and online attacks by lobbyists ahead of UN talks over plastic ...

Rivers are considered to be the main sources of microplastics entering the ocean - as they are running, they take in sewage and litter ...

Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a ...

Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and ...