From the very beginning of production, vapes are devastating for the environment. Sourcing raw materials for these products is highly resource intensive, requiring not just plastics, but heavy metals, ...

Hungry gulls do not only steal our chips and sandwiches. They learn our habits, and look for reliable sources of food. That ...

A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, chromium and other toxic heavy metals into ...

A new study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize ...

Mongolian herder Purev Batmunkh sighs as he picks through waste strewn across a field—the refuse of an unsightly and deadly waste pollution problem affecting swathes of the steppe. His country is ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, ...

A new study from the University shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. University of Leeds ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

More than 10 years after environmental groups petitioned for a new rule, the state plans to require the Central Valley Water ...

China has upgraded its technical specification for e-waste recycling in a move to combat pollution from the nation's rapidly ...

Cleanup operations across 28 coastal provinces resulted in removal of 325,000 tons of marine waste, with 24/7 monitoring of ...