The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not just a floating pile of plastic waste. It is a massive, shifting platform of ecological change.

Usually, New Year’s resolutions focus on hitting the gym or saving money, but there is a massive shift toward making our biggest pledge – one for the planet.

It often feels like you are leaving a supermarket with more packaging than groceries. Is plastic packaging an unnecessary habit?

The beautiful Mediterranean Sea hides a growing crisis beneath its surface – a bottleneck of microplastic pollution.

Trawling and mining doesn’t just kill marine life. It rips up the seafloor, crushes habitats and unleashes carbon stores.

Plastic waste has infiltrated remote locations like the Mariana Trench. Even at these extreme depths, items of plastics have been recorded.

Our appetite to “purchase stuff,” in order to belong, to feel trendy, relevant, seen, is rising. Every item bought comes with an invisible receipt – one paid for, in carbon, waste, and water.

Over fifty years later from its inception, Earth Day is still observed as a reminder to refocus our efforts to protect the environment.

Reheating food in the microwave is something we do every day. But what happens when plastic covers are constantly exposed to heat?

Plastisphere is the the diverse microorganism communities that are rapidly colonising the porous and rough suface of microplastics.