"Waiter, there are fragments of synthetic polymers in my soup" does not have quite the ring to it as the old joke about the unappetizing fly.But going by research presented during a May 31 - June 3 ...

The responsibility lies not just with the shipping industry but also with governments, international bodies, and the plastic ...

Stormont's agriculture minister has hit out at what he has called "misinformation" over his department's plans to reduce ...

Natural gas has become a go-to fuel for power plants from coast to coast, sometimes replacing dirtier coal-fired plants and, ...

Somehow, we’ll need to get the limited land on our hot and hungry planet to produce much more food to sustain us and absorb ...

These tiny shards have turned up everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the top of Mount Everest to the human body.

The study, recently published in PNAS, provides a comprehensive evaluation of the relationship between microplastic exposure and photosynthesis across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

Hunting is an art form for the squid. These deep-sea creatures evolved to thrive in the darkness and also survive its ...

A new study points to some pretty serious consequences. Scientists make disturbing discovery after examining effects of food ...

Yonder examined how increasingly frequent and intense weather disasters impact pregnant people, mothers, and young families ...

Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million ...

Like air pollution or harmful construction materials ... breath them in through the air, or consume food with trace amounts of its plastic packaging. For this reason, it's difficult to completely ...