The industrial age has brought millions of pounds of toxic contaminants into our environment. Pollution, synthetic chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals and even chemicals from household products are ...

Those different uses require different types of plastics ... it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which ...

Across the world, coastal regions and ecosystems are facing diverse environmental pressures from overexploitation, soil erosion, urban waste discharge and more. The consequences are equally ...