Clouds affect Earth's weather and climate in many ways. New research suggests that the presence of microplastic particles ...

A scientist has determined that the strange white blobs puzzling Newfoundland beachcombers are made of a plastic commonly ...

Kate Assaraf is not into growth, growth, growth. Yet she's built a 7-figure business that sells its plastic-free bars in more ...

Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have discovered that CDA is the fastest degrading type of plastic in seawater – technically classified as a bioplastic – and with ...

Not only do we think of cats as liquid objects, they smugly seem to know it too. Science has now effectively proven it: when faced with a series of progressively smaller openings, cats are able to ...

New research has detected high levels of flame retardants in some toys, kitchen utensils and other household items made from recycled black plastic. But the potential health effects remain unclear.

Since dolphins and humans inhale similar plastic particles, dolphins may be at risk for the same lung problems. As top predators with decades-long life spans, bottlenose dolphins help scientists ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers and retailers are doing it. The trouble is, many of these initiatives ...

Some of the gnarliest fluids of the past century have all gone by the same name: “Liquid Death.” The muckrakers of the early 1900s used the term to stand in for nitroglycerin, the highly ...