A study points to the risk of fragments remaining in the geological cycle. Laboratory analyses mainly identified polyethylene ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snapshot of "nurdles" collected from Galveston, Texas, shorelines shows the condition of these plastics as they weather in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee holds plastic pellets in a production area of a company. The European Union has hashed out new regulations aimed at ...

The presence of small plastic pellets on the beaches of Donostia and Orio has drawn attention to a little-studied source of ...

In March 2025, a collision out in the North Sea led to millions of tiny plastic pellets reaching our shores. A mass clear-up began and worried wildlife charities warned of potential devastation for ...

Spanish state prosecutors are investigating the presence of numerous small plastic pellets along the northwest coastline, spilled from a transport ship. There are fears that the pellets may have toxic ...

In a blow to local wildlife and coastal communities, countless tiny plastic pellets are littering the waters and beaches along Spain’s northern coast after containers filled with the stuff fell off a ...

MADRID — Spanish state prosecutors have opened an investigation of countless tiny plastic pellets washing up on the country’s northwest coastline after they were spilled from a transport ship, posing ...

Wintering gulls at a protected lake in southern Spain are depositing an estimated 530 kg of plastic into the wetland each ...

Plastic pellets known as nurdles are embedded in the sand along the banks of the Hoosic River Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 in Schaghticoke. SCHAGHTICOKE — Months after a train crashed the night of Feb. 7 ...

The 4,700-acre Seadrift Operations complex produces various plastics as well as chemicals for antifreeze, paints, detergents, shampoo and other beauty products on the Gulf Coast in Calhoun County, ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Local community leaders are working to raise awareness of plastic pellet pollution, a problem that remains prevalent in the Charleston area. Advocates from the Public ...