Common questions about plastic pollution.

Our energy reporter Reid Frazier digs into how Shell's new ethane cracker will turn natural gas into one of the building blocks of modern life.

To manage the climate crisis, and protect vulnerable populations, we must diminishing our reliance on both.

That plastic milk carton in your fridge has had a very interesting life.

We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away? Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world.

Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.

How much plastic is in the food you eat? Much more than you realize, experts say.

Plastic water bottles, a long-known enemy of our Earth, are finding their way into human bodies in huge quantities—well, pieces of them are.

Around the world, waves of plastic are washing ashore and clogging landfills. Even though plastic pollution is now one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals, our appetite for the virtually indestructible material keeps growing. Amna Nawaz and producer Lorna Baldwin begin our series.

Plastic isn’t just a pollution problem. It’s a climate problem. Here’s how you can do your part to reduce its impact.

Researchers found roughly 240,000 detectable plastic fragments in a typical liter of bottled water. Most of them were nanoplastics — particles less than 1 micrometer in size.

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study.

Plastic was found in the gut of every single sea turtle examined in a new study, casting fresh light on the scale of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.

Plastic pollution is piling up. Despite efforts to rein it in, only 9% of it is actually recycled.

Travel thousands of miles with a plastic drinking bottle to learn about plastic pollution and understand how it harms the ocean.

El plástico está invadiendo los océanos y los daños medioambientales que provoca son incalculables. Ante esta situación, surgen numerosas preguntas: ¿cómo llega el plástico al mar? ¿De dónde proceden los residuos? ¿Qué podemos hacer para evitarlo? A continuación, señalamos a los principales culpables.

Oceans are home to large deposits of plastic waste.

Plastic is everywhere: In your home, your office, your school — and your ocean. Among the top 10 kinds of trash picked up during the 2017 International Coastal Cleanup were food wrappers, beverage bottles, grocery bags, straws, and take out containers, all made of plastic.

After six months at sea, 60 massive bags of plastic have been collected from The Ocean Cleanup’s huge floating barrier. Here’s what you need to know.

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.

THE OCEAN, A CARBON SINK A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that absorbs and stores the atmosphere’s carbon with physical and biological mechanisms. Coal, oil, natural gases, methane hydrate and limestone are all examples of carbon sinks. After long processes and under certain conditions, these sinks have stored carbon for millennia. On

Around 25% of all CO2 emissions are absorbed by the ocean, making it one of the world's largest 'carbon sinks'.

Plastic poses problems for our environment. Here are the various ways it’s contributing to the climate crisis - and what can be done about it.

Two top scientific bodies recently announced that coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event for just the fourth time. It comes amid surging ocean temperatures over the past year, which has been the warmest on record. In this episode, we examine how a number of extreme climate change-fueled events – including coral bleaching – are on display in Australia and whether they could provide lessons in climate resiliency for the rest of the world.  Guest: Ivan Watson, CNN Senior International Correspondent

In Singapore, a new plant will turn CO2 from seawater and air into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen

More than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades.

A vital system of ocean currents in the Atlantic could collapse within a few decades – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.”

As the early morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life.

Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can help save humanity from the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing planet-heating carbon emissions, researchers say.

Most of the world’s cities will be unable to host the Games in the coming decades’ summer months, in the coming decades, as they blow past the threshold of safe humid heat.

The storm that sank the superyacht was sudden, violent and deadly. It may be a warning of what’s to come as global warming fuels more extreme weather in the Mediterranean.

The skin gets flush with fever, the breaths grow short, the heart races, dizziness sets in.

A dangerous heat wave over the eastern US is bringing sweltering temperatrues to much of the US this weekend, including over parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, a tropical system could develop this weekend through the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Here’s the latest:

The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% of the floating plastic with the help of ocean cleanup systems and river interception technologies.

Removing the plastic now helps to stop it from degrading and shedding additional microplastics into the ocean, which can enter the food chain and eventually end up in the human body.

After six months at sea, 60 massive bags of plastic have been collected from The Ocean Cleanup’s huge floating barrier. Here’s what you need to know.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world and is located between Hawaii and California. Scientists of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation have conducted the most extensive analysis ever of this area.

In Singapore, a new plant will turn CO2 from seawater and air into the same material as seashells, in a process that will also produce “green” hydrogen

When President Joe Biden’s massive climate bill passed Congress in 2022, Republican Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina complained it was boondoggle.

Countries could slash plastic pollution by 80% in less than two decades, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

It is hoped an agreement to address the growing problem of plastic waste in the world's oceans, rivers and landscapes can be reached by the end of 2024.

175 nations agree to develop a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by 2024, prompting a major step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production, use and disposal. Read more.

Update: On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 175 nations formally agreed to begin writing a UN plastic treaty to fight plastic waste globally. Negotiators will

Swiss voters have approved a new law to cut the use of fossil fuels and significantly reduce levels of planet-heating pollution, as the country faces alarming levels of glacier melt.

It’s all systems go for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize lately. It was only recently revealed that one of Asia’s greenest cities – Singapore – will be the location of the third annual award ceremony in November. Now we’re hearing about a new partnership between the Prince of Wales’ initiative and online video platform YouTube.

COVID-19 vaccines and PPE have created tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste, prompting the WHO to call for reforms around how such material is handled.