Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

If you think humanity’s addiction to fossil fuels is hard to shake, it’s nothing compared to the strength of our plastics habit. In rich countries, per-capita carbon emissions and crude oil ...

It’s official: In March, the United Nations Environmental Assembly endorsed a global pact on the life cycle of plastic. It has been declared a seismic shift in the battle against marine pollution, but ...

Emerging evidence suggests that environmental pollutants rarely act alone, yet most toxicological studies still assess them in isolation.

Plastic pollution poses not only a threat to the environment and climate, but is also "a grave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health." On the eve of a final round of ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such as orcas. Join the ...

Workers use razor blades to scrape labels from various plastic bottles of soft drinks at the Street Waste Company, Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, August 11, 2025. SUNDAY ALAMBA / AP Chaos and dismay. What ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 12 - Responsible consumption and production, SDG 14 - Life below water, and SDG 15 - Life on land Nano- and microplastics are now ...