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Plastic waste in water.

New AI model helps detect and identify microplastics in wastewater

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2024

Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 12 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

In 2023, Mongabay’s reporting fellows covered Earth amid crisis — and hope

Karen Coates 27 Dec 2023
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023
Fossils fuels are emblematic of a “take-make-waste” economic model that is pushing humanity beyond safe limits, experts say.

Circular economy poised to go beyond outdated oil, gas and coal, experts say

Sean Mowbray 16 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
Plastics of all shapes, sizes, colors and composition enter the ocean every day, with largely unknown impacts.

Microplastics pose risk to ocean plankton, climate, other key Earth systems

Claire Asher 9 Oct 2023
Clouds over mountains in Japan.

Up in the air: Study finds microplastics in high-altitude cloud water

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Oct 2023
Tires by the road.

Rolling car tires into the global circular economy

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2023
Biologist Mario Moscatelli (right) supervises the work of a colleague during the replanting of mangroves in Jardim Gramacho, close to a disused dump. The area is the most polluted part of the bay and exists under the shadow of the city’s infamous criminal organizations.

Rio de Janeiro’s defender of mangroves

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2023

Plastic ‘Frankenrocks’ pose new pollution threat to coastal environment

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2023

The endless struggle to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s highly polluted Guanabara Bay

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
A fish in a plastic glove.

Clean me a river: Southeast Asia chokes on Mekong plastic pollution

Juliette Portala 18 Jul 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
A Bengal whipping frog (Polypedates taeniatus).

In Bangladesh, microplastic threat to frogs is also concern for rice farming

Farhana Parvin 21 Jun 2023
An art installation by Saype portraying plastic pollution.

UN Paris meeting presses ahead with binding plastics treaty — U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 9 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023

Even in recycling, microplastics remain a persistent polluter, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023

‘Plasticosis’: the new disease killing seabirds and likely many other species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2023
A fishing cat.

Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2023
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

Deliberate dumping of plastic trash in the Pacific: How widespread is it? (commentary)

Saam Shams 12 Jan 2023
An Atlantic grey seal.

Plastic pellet pollution can end through coordinated efforts, report shows

Jewel S. Cabrera 21 Dec 2022
Used polythene waste on the banks of Buriganga River.

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

S.M. Najmus Sakib 30 Nov 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022
A coral reef in Sharm el Sheikh

‘One more thing’ about plastics: They could be acidifying the ocean, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Oct 2022

Sri Lanka eyes major compensation case over X-Press Pearl sinking

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Sep 2022

Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022
Green-lipped mussels. Image courtesy of Adrian Midgley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jun 2022

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 May 2022

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