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

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger ...

The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, ...

Plastic pollution is causing severe problems worldwide. However, negotiations at the United Nations in Geneva last August did ...

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

Plastic pollution could double its harm to human health in the coming decades if current production trends continue, ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday is Earth Day, and one of the easiest ways to help the environment is to reduce your use of plastic. Twenty two million pounds of plastic waste end up in the Great Lakes every ...

GENEVA (AP) — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution are discussing a new draft of the text Wednesday that would not limit plastic production or address ...

Medical centres are established to treat diseases and serve humanity, yet the plastic pollution generated by these same institutions is becoming a silent threat to both the environment and public ...

BNSF Railway, the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, San Diego Coastkeeper, and North County Transit District announced Thursday they have settled allegations related to spillage during the ...