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

Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research show they're doing a good job at cutting down on litter, although some rules work better than others. In places where ...

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste items, plastic pollution threatens marine life, ecosystems, and even local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that plastic pollution brings an added health problem: It is a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes ...

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

Picking up litter at an Adopt-a-Beach cleanup at Jeorse Park Beach in East Chicago, Indiana, in 2023. A new report by the non-partisan, non-profit group Alliance for the Great Lakes found that 86% of ...

Small plastic litter, for instance, looks very much like fish eggs, which can confuse predators such as larger fish, he said. Then, aquatic birds eat the fish and the plastic makes its way out of the ...

For the first time, the amount of plastic litter hiding inside Lake Tahoe has been investigated, and the results aren't good. The popular tourist spot on the northern California/Nevada border contains ...

Scientists from N.C. State University released 40 GPS-tracked plastic bottles into Marsh Creek in Raleigh in April and May 2025 to study how litter travels. This is a part of a larger NOAA-funded ...

Plastic has been found in every single part of the ocean, from the surface to the seafloor and from the tropics to the poles. Land-based sources of plastic account for the majority of this pollution, ...