Plastic production largely took off in the 1950s and is credited with creating life-saving medical devices and safe food ...

Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement. By Hiroko ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

Jules Casey, who frequently posts underwater footage to her OneBreathDiver Instagram account, said that she saw two 11-armed sea stars “fighting over a plastic bag filled with frozen fish.” ...

His current focus is plastic production and pollution's impact on our planet, and he is pushing for countries to agree on an ambitious internationally binding agreement to reduce plastic waste.

That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What’s to become of all the plastic ...

which tended to mis-classify a shadow or water as plastic, according to the statement. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! "This is incredibly ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula. In a world of plastic consumer ...

We revised the section on bottled water to more clearly reflect ongoing research about microplastic concentrations. Microplastics and nanoplastics are everywhere. The teeny tiny pieces of plastic ...

Among the many flying tips making the rounds in recent years on TikTok, there’s one that continues to pop up: how to get a ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.