Plastic Odyssey, a 40-metre floating lab, is on a global mission to combat plastic pollution by recycling waste into valuable ...

The Plastic Odyssey left France two years ago with the objective of finding ways to reduce marine plastic pollution in the 30 ...

Ahead of the UNEP-hosted World Environment Day, here’s a closer look at what plastic pollution is, why it’s such a problem ...

Renowned for their incredible range of subspecies and unique evolutionary adaptations, the Galapagos Islands are sometimes referred to as a ‘living laboratory of evolution’ because of their isolated ...

Plastic Reboot is the first initiative at this scale aimed at addressing plastic pollution through upstream solutions in key ...

Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

Gentle scissor snips complement the night’s sounds. It’s 4 a.m. and most people are still asleep, but inside a modest house ...

around 230km north of the main island of Male. There, environmental experts helped locals set up a sustainability laboratory for recycling plastic on site. Visitors can see first-hand how plastics ...

To address the growing threat of marine microplastic pollution in the Galapagos Islands, the IAEA's Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic ...

There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around ... the world’s plastic waste is mismanaged or littered. Other major countries produced much fewer plastic pollution ...

The government has also identified reuse as an integral part of Indonesia’s battle against plastic waste, which has become a serious problem. Indonesia is one of the world’s largest contributors to ...

Within eight weeks of opening, the North East Seal Triage (NEST) unit in Northumberland, England, has helped rescue and rehabilitate around 40 seals that became injured, such as entanglement in ...