The bioplastics company, with an office in Shelton, collaborated with a UConn marine sciences team to evaluate the product’s ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

Heavy metal contamination in Yangshan Port raises concerns for seafood safety, with arsenic and mercury posing health risks.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Trump sucks the air out of paper straws with new ban. How the environmentally-friendly device has drawn so much ire - ...