Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Abdul Awal Mintoo emphasized that government agencies, the private sector ...

Bali is cleaning up its ocean of plastics. Bali has a unique opportunity to address plastic waste by integrating sustainable practices into the tourism experience. As a top global destination, ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

Plastics changed the world. In a little over 70 years since mass production began, the versatile material has seeped into every facet of our lives — from packaging, textiles, kitchenware and cosmetics ...

Researchers have developed NIXVEGS, an open-source machine learning tool that predicts microplastic concentrations across an ...

Ahead of the UN plastics treaty talks in Busan, The Straits Times launched an interactive that traced the invisible journey of microplastics across the oceans. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how ...

Current projected growth in plastic pollution will cause significant ecological risks, with certain pollution hotspots like the Mediterranean, the East China and Yellow Seas, and the Arctic sea ice ...

For years the alarm about microplastics has been about the plastic, not the pollutants they carry. The tiny fragments are small enough for a fish, an earthworm or a person to swallow. New research now ...

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework states that plastic pollution must be eliminated by 2030. So why haven't we enacted measures that make a real difference? Plastic pollution is more ...