Plastic food packaging, caps and lids, and plastic bottles are the planet's predominant items of marine litter, according to the world's first overview of marine litter by usage type.

A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Senior Coordinating Producer of Climate and Environmental Coverage Tracy J. Wholf ...

Plastic in Antarctica harbors bacteria with antibiotic resistance, raising concerns among scientists about its global spread.

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have shocked citizens around the globe. Reports indicate that the amount of plastic ...

Plastic waste exports from Europe hit new highs in 2025, with Germany and the UK leading shipments abroad. Which countries ...

World plastics production exploded over the intervening decades, from about 25 million metric tons in 1967 to roughly 450 million in 2024. The stock prices of plastics manufacturers soared as the ...

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and ...

Nigerian shop manager Olarewanju Ogunbona says he uses Styrofoam and plastic packs at least five times a day — nothing unusual in the megacity of Lagos, one of the world’s most plastics-polluted urban ...

Nina Notman discovers how a type of chemical recycling - depolymerisation - could increase recycling rates, reduce plastic ...