Plastic Pollution

Here's one way to cut down on plastic pollution: Eat your bowl

Premier League clubs have taken major steps to cut their plastic waste since the Daily Telegraph launched a Government-backed manifesto to pressurise them into becoming greener, it can be revealed. A year after an investigation by this newspaper laid bare ho…

A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans would be willing to pay more for products made out of environmentally sustainable materials to avoid single-use plastic products and help save the planet. The survey was conducted by PBS NewsHour and Maris…

Plastiglomerates, a new kind of rocks made partially from burned plastic, were described for the first time in 2014 from a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. Most likely, the plastiglomerate there formed from melting plastic in fires lit by humans who were ca…

Picture taken on July 6, 2009 in Castanet-Tolosan shows Coca-Cola bottles on an assembly line at a ... Coca Cola bottling plant. AFP PHOTO / REMY GABALDA (Photo by REMY GABALDA / AFP) (Photo credit should read REMY GABALDA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via G…

Research from a leading international expert on the health of the Great Lakes suggests that the growing intensity and scale of pollution from plastics poses serious risks to human health and will continue to have profound consequences on the ecosystem. In an…

In 2012, Boyan Slat hatched a plan to rid the oceans of plastic waste. In a TEDx talk he gave in Delft the 18-year-old Dutch student imagined a giant, floating device that would funnel 55 shipping containers worth of plastic pollution out of the Pacific Ocean…

Its been a good week for Sir David Attenborough, who received yet another award to put alongside his knighthood and 32 honorary degrees. The Queen put her Prince Andrew-based troubles aside earlier on Tuesday to surprise her old friend and fellow 93-year-old…

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Prakash Javadekar is responding to questions raised in the Lok Sabha regarding the environment. The Rajya Sabha discussed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, the  Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) …

Space selfies are now a thing. A free app called Spelfie lets users snap photos of themselves from very high above, courtesy of cameras aboard Airbus Earth-observation satellites .  Those cameras aren't powerful enough to capture your grinning face, of cou…