In 10 minutes, volunteers collected nearly 700 nurdles at Rotary Park in Carlsbad earlier this month. Nurdles are tiny, ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last September, Jace Tunnell discovered a layer of tiny round plastic pellets covering a beach on Padre Island, ...

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts. Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil ...

Many large toy companies are trying to become more eco-friendly after decades of relying on environmentally destructive plastic in their products and packaging. The pandemic has created an ...

Calling from her New Orleans home, DiFranco explains that this reissue came about because of a pragmatic concern: “It occurred to us over at Righteous Babe [Records] that all of these records I’ve ...

Americans' use of plastic boomed during the pandemic, including mountains of single-use items such as takeout containers, plastic bags and, of course, face masks. At the same time, we're recycling ...

A creative solution for plastic pollution may be hiding in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic. These chilly environments house tons of microbes with unique traits, as scientists have discovered in recent ...

Plastic is everywhere—even in the foods we eat and the beverages we drink. CR’s recent tests of nearly 100 foods found two types of chemicals used in plastic, bisphenols and phthalates, in a wide ...

These guys have the goods to be 2007’s Spank Rock, or maybe even 2010’s Beastie Boys. On their full-length debut, She’s Mature (Free News), their ingratiating everydude chemistry is simultaneously ...

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Tita Mu Koshigaya is a young woman who captains a ship, the Cha-Cha Maru, whose business is capturing exotic creatures in the 'sea of clouds' of the planet Ietta, and selling them to collectors and ...