A young entrepreneur has an innovative design for cleaning up the plastic waste that plagues the world's oceans. ->
Plastics should be re-classified as hazardous, scientists argue, due to the dangers they pose. ->
A group of architects have a radical new idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: turn it all into a giant island the size of Hawaii's Big Island.
The maker of all things "i" recently dropped eco-friendly certification for many of its products.
Cooking oil could become the raw material for plastic, giving those forks used to spear greasy french fries their own new sizzle.
Wind-blown plastic bags and balloons outnumber rattlesnakes and tortoises in one of America's most treasured desert wildernesses.
At the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union this week, geologists are grappling with how to define the boundaries of that human-centered geologic era, referred to as the Anthropocene.
Winds are stirring plastic pollution in the ocean deep below the surface.
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