Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region ...

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of ...

Products made from plastic have become a critical problem, polluting bodies of water worldwide. Plastics in oceans have become so ubiquitous that a term was coined — ocean-bound plastic — to describe ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Every year, around 20 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean, rivers, and lakes — disrupting ecosystems and livelihoods. NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics), ...

Plastic litter covers the ground around a river by a highway overpass. A UN treaty to address plastic pollution has fallen behind schedule. Credit: Shutterstock Plastic pollution is still a big topic ...