Here’s some gallows humor to consider tomorrow on the 54th celebration of Earth Day:If you’re fishing way off in the future and catch a world-record specimen, you won’t need to take it to a ...

Milk Jug, produced by VEB Preßwerk Tambach and designed by IEE (1960-1964) (© Die Neue Sammlung - the Design Museum, A. Laurenzo) Klaus Kunis, "Flower watering cans ...

A recent study reports plastic pollution has deposited itself into our fossil record. Water bottles, lunch bags and clothing laced with microfibers— welcome to what some are calling the “plastic age.” ...

We’ve found tiny plastic particles in the depths of the ocean and the air we breathe, fragments of car tires and plastic bags among them. Plastic pollution may seem like a modern phenomenon, but new ...

To many, plastic waste is a plague on the planet. Others see it as a potentially valuable resource in a circular economy. John Schofield, a professor in the Department of Archaeology at the University ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...

Plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, research has found, with contamination increasing exponentially since 1945. Scientists suggest the plastic layers could be used to mark the ...