From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Producer Paloma Beltran with Reid Frazier of The Allegheny Front. PALOMA BELTRAN: Even ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region. But it, too, has ...

South Carolina's coastal waters are turning into a plastic soup. Swirling in this stew are hard plastics, tiny fibers and miniature shreds of tires. When researchers at The Citadel set out to create ...

While plastic is generally discussed as an environmental issue it has become a significant health threat infiltrating both ...

Think you're not eating microplastics? Think again. Researchers at UCLA have uncovered something unsettling: microplastics are released directly into your mouth every time you chew gum. In a new study ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Tiny particles from clothing, packaging and other plastic products are ending up in Oregon seafood, according to a new Portland State University study. The PSU research team ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region. But it, too, has ...

With global plastic production projected to top 445 million tons next year, Maryland scientists say microplastic pollution is posing growing risks to the Chesapeake Bay — and to the oysters and people ...

Once a month for nearly two years, Evan Clark, the Waterkeeper at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a water quality advocacy organization based in Pittsburgh, has traveled by boat along the Ohio River to ...