Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

To the editor: It is horrible that even very small pieces of plastic trash harm marine animals (“How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers,” Nov. 17). Having ...