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Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches
A new study has found that shorttail fanskate populations may be being …
Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up – but manufacturers are fighting back
Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it’s threatening our human …
Microplastic exposure breeds antimicrobial resistance
Article body copy Two scourges of 20th century public and environmental health—microplastics …
The Ocean Race: Teams helping track warming sea and plastic pollution
"I had to jump over the side of the boat with a …
When the water isn't safe to drink
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In Bangladesh, microplastic threat to frogs is also concern for rice farming
Researchers have found microplastics in 90% of frogs sampled from the Bengal …
The ‘Sisyphus of trash’ struggles to clean relentless waves of plastic from a New York island’s beaches
In just three years, Michele Klimczak has picked, hauled, weighed, documented and …
Leana S. Wen: Single-use plastics are everywhere in health care. That must change
You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to …
Cigarette filters are the world's most common plastic waste
You might not know that cigarette filters are made of plastic. The …
Inside Indiana's “advanced” plastics recycling plant: dangerous vapors, oil spills and life-threatening fires
ASHLEY, Ind.—Two years ago on a Friday evening in May, Kory Kistler …
Cities turn to trash skimmer boats to clean local waters
Cities are turning to “trash skimmers” to rid their waterways of plastic …
Geoffrey Lean: Whisper it, but the boom in plastic production could be about to come to a juddering halt
Plastic production has soared some 30-fold since it came into widespread use …
Satellites, drones join fight against air pollution in Pennsylvania
A cluster of colors indicates methane gas released from a coal mine …
World Ocean Day: How much plastic is in our oceans?
According to UNESCO, 8-10 million tonnes of plastic are released into the …
Plastics treaty draft underway, but will the most impacted countries be included?
Negotiators at last week’s global plastics treaty talks in Paris agreed to …
Displaced and distraught: East Palestine remains at risk and without answers
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Gary Chirico pulled up to the First Church …
‘It’s like a death pit’: How Ghana became fast fashion’s dumping ground
It’s mid-morning on a sunny day and Yvette Yaa Konadu Tetteh’s arms …
US lead pipe replacements stoke concerns about plastic and environmental injustice
Roughly 9.2 million lead pipes deliver drinking water to homes, schools and …
EPA spurns Trump-era effort to drop clean-air protections for plastic waste recycling
Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency has spurned a …
As plastics keep piling up, can ‘advanced’ recycling cut the waste?
Bob Powell had spent more than a decade in the energy industry …