When West Virginia University biology undergraduate student Isabella Tuzzio tested fish from central Appalachian streams, her ...

The Pacific Islands were well represented at the conference, with the Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

The world has a plastic problem, especially in our planet’s oceans. In fact, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an ...

A new ecological study links high marine microplastic levels near US coastlines with significantly greater prevalence of type ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of ...

Helga Huntley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Science & Mathematics at Rowan University, has co-authored a ...

A study of microplastics in U.S. coastal waters found that residents of counties adjacent to the most heavily microplastic-polluted waters had significantly higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, coronary ...

Living near oceans, while idyllic, may pose health risks due to microplastic pollution. A recent study links higher ...

New research links microplastics to higher risks of diabetes, stroke and heart disease in coastal communities.