Scientists have detected microplastics — the tiny and pervasive fragments now found in our seas, drinking water, food and, increasingly, living tissue — in human semen and follicular ...

Plastic waste is a growing issue worldwide. According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a truck load of plastic waste enters the ocean every minute we spend on this planet. ..

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Ghana’s own Buz Stop Boyz, a group of young environmental volunteers has been awarded the Sanitation Impact Award ...

This discovery offers a two-for-one solution. Researchers make game-changing breakthrough using common plastic waste — here's ...

China may be the world’s largest manufacturer of plastic, the report finds, but the United States is by far the world’s largest generator of plastic waste—it produced about 42 million metric ...

The country generates 1.1 billion pounds of plastic waste annually, Richard Adjei-Poku, the Executive Director of the Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG), an environmentally centred organisation, ...

Things like climate change, losing many types of plants and animals, widespread pollution, and using too many resources ... into soil and nearby water sources. According to the United Nations, about ...

There is a need to make the Environment slogan a reality and serious action should be taken to get rid of plastic pollution ...

Pervasive presence of microplastics in the environment adversely affects plants, animals, and humans. But what is ...

ENVIRONMENT advocates are calling on newly-elected officials to place the well-being of both people and planet at the forefront of local governance as they formally begin their terms. Groups under the ...