As WCIV reported,, that discovery could lead to a federal lawsuit against four companies on the Cooper River, which critics ...

A Chicago Tribune investigation documented thousands of plastic pellets — also known as nurdles — littering a rail siding in ...

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Millions of plastic pellets spilled into the Mississippi River last month. Afterward, activists and researchers say, government agencies dragged their feet, with no one wanting to claim responsibility ...

Trillions of small plastic pellets known as nurdles have been escaping from petrochemical plants into waterways and oceans for decades. Only lately has serious action been taken to figure out what can ...

Volunteers cleaning up millions of plastic pellets which have washed up on a Sussex beach say it is "the worst single incident" they have encountered. The pellets, known as biobeads, were washed ...

Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a series examining the causes, impacts and solutions to plastic pollution in the Great Lakes. Read the first, third and fourth entries here. BENTON HARBOR, ...

Look on the side of a highway sometime and you might see them. Or along the railroad tracks or a stream. Maybe even between your toes at the beach. Tiny pearl-shaped pieces of plastic, known as ...

Plastic beads that can be hazardous to fish and other aquatic life are being found in the Congaree River near South ...

This spring, citizen scientists across the country and the globe participated in the International Plastic Pellet Count, collecting small, usually round so-called “nurdles” on the shores of their ...

This story is part of a joint investigation with NPR that includes the documentary Plastic Wars, which aired March 31, 2020, on PBS. Stream the film. Look on the side of a highway sometime and you ...