In the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, at least 79,000 metric tons of plastic has coalesced to create the Great Pacific…
An emergency bottled-water distribution site in Flint, Mich., in early 2016. Sarah Rice/Getty Images A massive intrusion of salt water into…
Naka Nathaniel spent much of his career as a journalist with The New York Times, helping launch NYTimes.com, covering war…
Photo: A scanning electron microscope image shows microplastic particles (measuring 100 nanometers each) attached to the nanocellulose "mesh" VTT Technical…
New legislative efforts to ban plastics are important, but a recent court ruling in Texas reminds us that enforcing existing…