A team of University of Maryland researchers says it may be on the verge of solving one of the world's biggest environmental ...

The ocean works quietly every day to protect life on Earth. It absorbs heat from the atmosphere, stores massive amounts of ...

Marine microplastics affect algae's ability to grow and photosynthesize. Researchers have now calculated what impact this has ...

Plastic pollution refers to the accumulation of plastic waste in the environment, on land, in water bodies, and even in the air. Plastics are synthetic materials that do not biodegrade easily, and ...

As a crucial agricultural yield-increasing technique in arid and semi-arid regions, plastic film mulching (PFM) has significantly enhanced crop yield and quality by increasing soil temperature, ...

Microplastics are floating in the air around us, surging through rivers and streams, and burrowing deep into soils. And now, a new study suggests that all those tiny pieces of plastic are also ...

For the past few decades, the world has been grappling with severe plastic pollution. Tiny plastic particles, known as microplastics, are now being found in the human brain, blood, breast milk, ...