Community beach cleaners have found plastic waste uncovered there going back decades and originating from far away.

Cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may kill the neuston. Biologist Rebecca Helm says surface skimming risks this vital ...

Plastics manufacturing employment stays steady as consumer demand supports sector growth amid tariffs and high interest rates ...

Perhaps the most widely-known one is the DIN (German Institute For Norms), who regulates things like ski bindings and set the ...

Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response agrees on updated draft 2026 Strategy and Action Plan on Marine Litter. ​IMO ...

Exclusive: Gregory Lynn Hall, 62, claims he was assaulted by a riot gear-clad security guard after getting in the middle of ...

Clothes typically worn for exercise often contain fibres known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which can interfere ...

A new study led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has unveiled the first biomaterial that is not only waterproof but actually becomes stronger in contact with water. The material ...

Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow cellulose in aligned patterns, resulting in sheets with the strength of ...

Blue Ocean Gear's Smart Buoys are intelligent, connected fishing buoys that allow users to track the exact location and ...

The Olympic quest for every advantage, real or imagined, may have reached its Pantone-inspired zenith ahead of the 2018 Games, when Norway, a speedskating power known for racing in fire-engine red ...

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, known as PRRIA (S.1464/A.1749), targets larger companies, those over a set revenue threshold, and orders them to cut packaging by specific ...