The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays forever in the sand -- a layer of man's doing that will never go away.

BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico (AP) — A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels.

Granted, the success of recycling plastic is abysmal — the U.S. rate is roughly 7% — but in theory it can be done. So, I was delighted when I learned that Tucson, Arizona, where I live ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

The Chagos Islands deal could “dangerously” fracture the UK’s relationship with the US, Nigel Farage said, as he warned it could prevent future free trade agreements with America.

Parents are also free to remove bags from the plastic tote. Mason puts bags of ... Mason, who was born in Grand Island, attended middle school and high school in Hastings, graduating from Hastings ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

but we also had to dodge plastic. It was everywhere, in tiny bits and large chunks. The shorelines of Belize and its islands are trash heaps. The refuse the world dumps into the ocean, both ...

Britain and Mauritius said on Monday (January 13, 2025) there had been good progress in talks to finalise a deal over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, including a U.S.-British military base ...

The UK has denied the cost of handing over the Chagos Islands could rise to £18 billion and disputed claims made by the Mauritian Prime Minister about the renegotiated deal. Mauritian Prime ...