The plastic pollution crisis has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the modern age. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans each year, the damage to ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...

Nobody wants plastic pollution. That doesn’t mean poorly considered and heavy-handed governmental actions are the solution. This includes misguided single-use plastic bans (e.g., bans on plastic ...