I searched through my kitchen cabinets and found several surprising items that could be releasing microplastics into my meals ...

Plastic-coated fertilizers used on farms are emerging as a major but hidden source of ocean microplastics. A new study found ...

When the price of gold hit more than $4,000 per ounce for the first time in October, it set off a chain of events in four ...

Nurdle pollution is a significant environmental problem, and it's threatening beaches and the wildlife that inhabits them.

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

In a heavily polluted mangrove forest, a population of fiddler crabs is thriving — and changing the way scientists think ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

The area between Long Beach and Seal Beach has long been a trouble spot as trash flows from urban inland cities and onto the ...

The bright blue sign beckons from the roadside like a lighthouse for the bargain-obsessed, promising an adventure that’s ...

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...

Acidity levels are rising in the world’s oceans. We have known about “acid rain” for decades. Now the situation has reached ...

Rajan and fellow Port Washington residents David Jakim, Hildur Palsdottir and Annemarie Ansel created ReWild Long Island, ...