Plastic

An around-the-world tour for Earth Day.

An Italian naturalist and guide has turned beach trash and memory into a commentary on our age.

The world’s largest array of greenhouses has transformed the region economically, and in other, unforeseen ways.

Following a maritime disaster, Sri Lankans are cleaning their beaches, nurdle by nurdle.

Meet the conservators trying to keep plastics around longer. It's harder than you think.

One in Indonesia has been carrying a rubber ring since at least 2016. Here’s how the litter might be affecting the animal’s life.

Natural landscapes are seeing huge amounts of microplastics tumbling from the sky.

Caddisfly larvae are adapting to polluted waterways, but their recycling strategy has its drawbacks.

The teeny menaces turned up in a core taken from the floor of the Santa Barbara Basin.

Will it help solve the peak's trash problems?

The tiny pellets used to make plastic products are washing up everywhere, posing a huge environmental threat.

Plasticrust is one of humanity and nature’s worst collabs.

Researchers in Argentina found the synthetic nest by chance.

The Cocos (Keeling) Island chain is beautiful, but littered with plastic debris.

All praise to the tireless continuous plankton recorder.

A storm, a secret cave, and an ocean full of plastic.

From the Mariana Trench to the Moon, we don't have to be in a place very much to muck it up.

In San Pedro La Laguna, single-use items made from plastic and styrofoam are banned.