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

Andrew Johnson 1 Aug 2023
Monica Medina in the Democratic Republic of Congo traveling before she arrived at WCS. Photo credit: Justin Kenney

‘We must never assume that a healthy planet is automatic’ says WCS’s new CEO Monica Medina

Rhett A. Butler 25 Jul 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 washed-up egg case of a ray.

Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches

Michelle Carrere 30 Jun 2023

Annual Adam’s Peak pilgrimage leaves Sri Lanka biodiversity site littered

Malaka Rodrigo 28 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

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
A wild giant otter with a discarded single-use plastic bottle.

U.N. parties are worlds apart on plastics treaty solutions

Charles Pekow 27 Apr 2023

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2023

Scientists confirm plastic is a new threat to the Andean condor in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Feb 2023
A fishing cat.

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

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2023
Seaweed harvesting in the Philippines.

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Jewel S. Cabrera 17 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
Playing on an Xbox.

Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles

Claire Asher 25 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 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
Sorting through plastic

Experts decry ‘funny math’ of plastics industry’s ‘advanced recycling’ claims

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Sep 2022

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

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2022
A neighborhood store in Chile with a sign proclaiming they are no longer delivering plastic bags.

In world first, Chile to ban single-use food and beverage products over three years

Rachel Teng Ruiqi 1 Aug 2022

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022
A single-use plastic water bottle found by a snorkeller in The Gili Islands, Indonesia.

Indonesia should take a leadership role in the Global Plastics Treaty (commentary)

Aristyo Rizka Darmawan, Bella Nathania 8 Jun 2022

A year since X-Press Pearl sinking, Sri Lanka is still waiting for compensation

Malaka Rodrigo 2 Jun 2022
Estrela Matilde

Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’

Kaleab Girma 11 May 2022

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 May 2022
People protest against ExxonMobil in Melbourne, Australia.

California subpoenas ExxonMobil over plastic pollution

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Apr 2022

To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2022

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Claire Asher 22 Mar 2022

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022

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