Battling America’s ‘dirty secret’
Climate change raises the risk from failing sewage systems. So Catherine Coleman Flowers is working for a new way to deal with waste.
Dark Water: Thanks to exhaust scrubbers, while ships are polluting the air less, their water-pollution footprint is rising
A move to reduce pollution of the air by ships, ironically, seems to be driving up water pollution, notes a report in Science. Sulphur from...
Guest op-ed: Pollution could be the downfall of humanity
Everyone contributes to pollution: me, you, your mom, your employer, even those who work against pollution. You see all over the news stories about global...
Half of single-use plastic waste produced by just 20 companies
Production of single-use plastics is set to grow 30% in the next five years, fueling their contribution to global warming and ocean pollution, researchers said...
You Won’t Believe How Deep in the Ocean Plastic Is Found
In the 1967 coming-of-age rom-com “The Graduate,” a family friend tells recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock (played by a young Dustin Hoffman) that he should...
Delaware River may be dumping more plastic into ocean than any other U.S. waterway
Each year just over 283,000 pounds of plastic waste are carried by the Delaware River and ultimately dumped in the ocean. That puts the Delaware...
Twenty plastic-busting inventions to clean our rivers and seas
There’s an incomprehensible amount of plastic in the ocean – estimates put the known total at 5 trillion individual pieces, or around 150 million tonnes....
Why Rivers Are The Key To Rapidly Stopping Plastic Pollution
Close to 700 marine species are now known to be harmed by plastic, of which more than 100 are endangered. Its economic impact on coastal...