Before global leaders take the problem of plastic pollution into their hands this month, Japanese manicurist Naomi Arimoto is putting it on her fingernails. At the beach near her home south of Tokyo, ...

He says the work hasn’t been wasted, however. Beach plastic can be hard to recycle because of damage caused by ultra-violet light while it is in the ocean. But the team managed to do so and is ...

Sunscreen, sunglasses and hats all provide protection from the sun's harmful rays, but if you're looking for more coverage, it's time to consider a beach tent. A tent, canopy or shade doesn't have ...

Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement. By Hiroko ...

The first one is whether to ban the use of plastic and Styrofoam at county-owned ... Secondly, the commissioners accepted Miami Beach’s new proposal to contribute $10 million towards the county ...

A satellite picked up plastic placed on a beach at Shallow Inlet, close to Wilsons Promontory National Park, in Victoria’s Gippsland region. Source: RMIT Looking down at the Earth from space ...

The team placed 14 pieces of various plastic types on a beach in southern Gippsland, Victoria, to test the BPDI using WorldView-3, an Earth-observing satellite operated by Maxar Technologies.

JOHN’S, N.L. - A scientist has determined that the strange white blobs puzzling Newfoundland beachcombers are made of a plastic commonly ... the sticky globs from a beach in Arnold’s Cove ...

But it isn't just plastic packaging that Europeans are throwing out in large volumes. With plastic waste generation growing annually, and recycling rates failing to keep up, Europe has a long road ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by SJC Beach Services (@sjcbeaches) SJC Beach Services (@sjcbeaches) posted the image of a deceased hawksbill sea turtle. The photo was captioned: "The cause ...

Starting Monday, more than 170 countries will converge in Busan, Republic of Korea, to negotiate a new legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution, including marine pollution. This is the ...