Countless plastic beads are washing ashore in France, and officials are stumped as to how to deal with the environmental disaster.
Houston has experienced three boil water notices in just the past two years.
People in Jackson, Mississippi keep losing access to drinking water. The EPA has opened a civil rights investigation in the predominantly Black city.
Nearly half the country’s waters could see an increase in toxic agricultural runoff, a study finds.
The governor declared a state of emergency after flooding rendered much of the capital without running or drinkable water.
Government officials say the shocking carnage is the result of a contaminant being dumped into the Oder River along the Poland-Germany border.
The phase-out of plastic is supposed to be complete by 2032, because what's the rush?
Researchers detected microplastics in 19 samples of snow from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
It's not clear how plastics that end up inside our bodies may be affecting our health.
The company said it plans to incorporate the new material into various products, beginning with the latest Galaxy line launching on Feb. 9.
People with IBD had greater levels of microplastics in their feces than healthy controls, but it's not clear yet whether these pollutants are a true trigger.
The names may be familiar, but the amount of plastic these companies are producing is shocking.
Name a place on Earth, and the odds are good that it’s contaminated with microplastics. That includes the top of the world.
The latest research findings from our dystopian present.
A new technique for measuring ocean plastic provides one of the most granular views of pollution yet.
Team Seas is the mega-popular YouTuber's new humanitarian ocean cleanup stunt. It has serious problems.
Researchers say this new material could be used in place of other types of plastic.
Instead of vanquishing glitter, scientists just made it biodegradable. Thanks?
"They spent I don’t know how many tens of millions of dollars to invent fishing."
A small study found that even newborns can carry microplastics in their system, while infants seem to have much higher levels than adults.
