Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Plastic to-go containers have come through for all of us in the clutch more times than we can count. Lunch on the go, last night's meatloaf, dinner party leftovers -- those containers have made it ...

Humanity's impact on the environment during our short history on the planet has been profound. Global temperatures are on the ...

A new study found chemicals can leach from plastic takeout containers into food, impacting the gut biome—and then the heart Getty Eating from plastic takeout containers can increase your risk of ...