Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year . . . from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar ...

The world is drowning in plastic. Each year, an estimated 11 million metric tonnes of plastic waste enters our oceans — a figure expected to triple by 2040. Rivers act as plastic conveyor belts, ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

"The Problem With Plastic" is both a call to arms and a thorough look at the far-reaching effects of plastic production.

(CNN) — The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, ...