A sustainable city handles its water resources properly. As water becomes increasingly difficult to manage, environmentally ...

Gravity Wave's team intends to expand its work by collaborating with like-minded businesses, individuals, and governments. It begins by removing "every last kilogram of plastic from the Mediterranean ...

Discover the true scale of the plastic pollution crisis and explore the latest breakthroughs in recycling and repurposing plastic waste. From fashion brands crafting apparel with recycled materials to ...

Instead of treating plastic purely as waste, new research shows that it can be transformed into something useful — acetic ...

They’re tenacious, which is very good for a milk jug or a car bumper. But they don’t easily break down, which is bad for the environment. From the 1950s, when plastics were first produced in ...

Environmental advocates worry its storied tenure might be coming to an end under plans to strip it of environmental-permitting authority.

The January collapse of a pipe as wide as a car dumped so much sewage into the Potomac River that officials tracked a spike of gut-wrenching bacteria drifting slowly past ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a familiar household chemical: acetic acid, the main ingredient in vinegar.

The breakthrough offers a promising new approach to reducing plastic pollution through photocatalysis, a metabolic pathway ...

Explore the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution and its impact on marine life and human health. Find out how to help.

The United Nations’ climate crisis express has slammed to a halt on the tracks. It’s not hard to see why. The Trump ...

Tiny shards of plastic called microplastics are all over the environment and even inside human bodies. Researchers have found a type of bioengineered algae that can clean up these pesky particles.