Plastic pollution is one of the most looming environmental crises in the world Be it in the ocean in landfills or even in the air one breathes plastic waste floats flies or moves along winds and river ...

Burning plastic waste releases harmful chemicals into the air, including dioxins, furans and mercury, many of which are known ...

Mark Oprea is a staff writer at Scene. For the past seven years, he's covered Cleveland as a freelance journalist, and has contributed to TIME, NPR, the Pacific Standard and the Cleveland Magazine. He ...

Closed to outsiders and plagued by addiction, a Vietnam village tuned its radios to a California preacher. It has bloomed ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

During a recent beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I came across an intriguing yet concerning discovery: A Fish ...

These microscopic particles have been linked to negative health outcomes such as cardiovascular problems and oxidative stress.

Of the many microplastics that are released into the environment, 35% are shed from clothing. So small that they are often ...

where lots of floating plastic exists, too. "We found that the smaller organisms that we sampled seem to be ingesting more anthropogenic, non-nutritious particles," Elise Granek, professor of ...

If you get to the "Go" step, you absolutely go after a child. You never, the experts say, go after a dog. That makes sense. A ...

This makes their journeys not just about exploring new destinations but also about giving back to local communities and the environment ...

What we call long-term monitoring, of course, is just a blink in the Washoe Tribe’s millennia-long relationship with Lake ...