As plastic waste continues to build up in the environment, researchers are beginning to uncover how it could be quietly ...

Plastics are everywhere -- in our brains, bloodstream, and lungs and in pregnant women's placenta, where they can cause long-term damage to a child's cognition, heart health and fertility. They're ...

We need to put humans and the environment before corporate profits, writes Bethanie Carney Almroth Plastics have become a concern at the forefront of public environmental awareness campaigns and in ...

Plastic exposure in children is linked to heart disease, infertility, obesity, and asthma, urging urgent global action.

Childhood exposure to chemicals used to make plastic household items presents growing health risks that can extend long into adulthood, experts from NYU Langone Health report. Subscribe to our ...

Plastic may well be a useful everyday item, but its careless disposal in oceans and inland waterways is a pressing global problem. Plastic pollution poses a significant threat to human health and the ...

Every day, millions of Malaysians unwrap their lunches, sip bubble tea from plastic cups, wrappers that line the supermarket ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Global talks on curbing dangerous plastics pollution ended early Friday without ...

Sri Lanka’s long-delayed effort to curb plastic pollution must now move from talk to tangible action, says Hemantha Withanage ...