Plastic Pollution

The United Nations is calling for world governments to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030 in order to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity, restore ecosystem functions, and help stave off the worst impacts of climate change. At least 10 percent of this a…

Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young signed a bill Monday that bans retailers' use of plastic bags, saying he was proud Baltimore is "leading the way in creating cleaner neighborhoods and waterways." The law will prohibit grocers and other retailers from giving out…

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The Senate unanimously passed the Save Our Seas Act 2.0 Friday, a measure intended to reduce pollution of plastic …

Plastic pollution is getting under our skin. Literally. As plastics have become ubiquitous in modern society, so too has plastic pollution, including that of tiny plastic particles. These microplastics have been detected in the air, water and even in some foo…

Plastic pollution is getting under our skin. Literally. As plastics have become ubiquitous in modern society, so too has plastic pollution, including that of tiny plastic particles. These microplastics have been detected in the air, water and even in some foo…

Scientists have developed a new method to investigate links between top predator diets and the amount of microplastic they consume through their prey. The new research from Abertay University in collaboration with Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the Univer…

This article was produced by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Our story begins in the 1950s. The classic promotional film shows the good American housewife, just likeJune Cleaver, dropping a large bowl on the kitchen floor. …

About 90,000 people visited a sand sculpture made by well-known sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Puri beach even as lakhs thronged the Lord Jagannath temple a few km away in the coastal Odisha town on the occasion of New Years Day on Wednesday. Mr. Patnaik c…

The Aeroschup technology created by TSU biologists to clean petroleum products from the bottom of reservoirs will be used to solve the problem of plastic contamination. The project team has already completed laboratory tests that confirmed the ability of the …

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are one of the most iconic elasmobranchs out there, easily identifiable by their blue skin that is peppered with constellations across their whole body. Like a fingerprint, each of these patterns of stars are unique to an indivi…