It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

By Mike DiGirolamo Judith Enck is a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by ...

KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome issues facing our planet… the plastic problem. It’s a compounding catastrophe that has already ...

Days after talks on a new international treaty to curb plastic pollution collapsed, Sr. Patty Johnson was nonetheless feeling hopeful. Johnson was in Busan, South Korea, with three fellow Sisters of ...

While filming a documentary about oceans on a boat in the Pacific Ocean several years ago, producer and director Steve Cowan encountered a shocking scene. “We were surrounded from horizon to horizon ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

Los Angeles is suing the nation’s two largest beverage brands for their contributions to plastic pollution, embracing the novel legal attacks launched by its home state California and New York. LA ...

Scientists are increasingly blunt about a habit that once felt harmless: heating leftovers in plastic. As research on ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

CHICAGO, May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chomps, America’s fastest-growing snack brand known for its high-quality meat sticks*, announces its partnership with 4ocean, a global cleanup organization ...

Among the reasons Republicans think Vice President Kamala Harris is unfit for the country’s highest office: She “wants to get rid of plastic straws.” That’s according to Jason Miller, a senior adviser ...