An estimated 280 million metric tons of plastic waste will enter the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year by 2040, ...

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis ...

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose.

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...