Plastic is everywhere — and so are its harms. In this Earth Day interview, a frontline community member shares how a new plastic plant changed her life and her town. Plastic is everywhere — and so are ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

Amazon is phasing out plastic from the envelopes, bags, boxes and cushioning it uses to ship items, swapping in paper-based ...

Plastic trash accumulates in trees and shrubs along the Los Angeles River. Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images To better understand why plastics don’t ...

Plastic that behaves like a sturdy fork on your picnic table and then quietly melts back into the soil sounds like science ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing ‘advanced’ recycling facilities, which release carcinogens and give off more greenhouse gases than making plastic from crude oil. Last year, I became ...

The time may be coming to wash our hands of plastic trash. Literally. About 60 percent of all plastic ever made ends up in landfills or littering the environment. Only about one-tenth of plastic waste ...

This week’s special Earth Day edition of the Current Climate newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. To celebrate my birthday last year, I hired one of those self-driving boats you can ...