When the BBC nature documentary series “Blue Planet II” aired in October 2017, series narrator and naturalist Sir David Attenborough asked that people around the world begin taking plastic pollution ...

You stopped at a coffee shop, got a cup of Joe to go, then went home and grabbed a yogurt out of the fridge. Now you’re done, and the question is this: Do the empty containers go into the trash bin or ...

A search warrant issued last week for Peterson's two vehicles mentions "blue plastic" and "scuff marks" left by a "large storage container," lending credence to reports that investigators think ...

Not so fast. The reality is unfortunately far more complicated. Americans are locked into a dysfunctional relationship with plastic. Collectively, we generate approximately 33 million tons of plastic ...

Nature documentary series Blue Planet II has convinced its parent company, the BBC, to ban all plastic cups, utensils, and containers by 2020–and others are joining in the cause.

MONTEREY — Blue whales, the largest animals known to ever exist, weigh as much as 300,000 pounds — equal to the weight of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean every nine minutes. That statistic ...