Straw Man” is not a term we use much any more, but it had a long run. The expression has its roots in the 1590s, which makes ...

A dramatic TikTok video is sparking outrage for spotlighting one of the ocean's most pervasive and preventable threats: balloon pollution. Posted by boating company Vessel Mastery (@vesselmastery), ...

A new proposed rule mandates government contractors prove they don't use paper straws, favoring ones made from alternative or biobased plastic materials.

Members of the general public will have a chance to weigh in on the use of paper versus plastic straws as the federal government considers a new rule on the types of straws used by government ...

The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Trump takes aim at paper straws that "melt in my mouth," citing his February executive order banning the federal use of paper straws as government buildings switch back to plastic.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over single-use plastics.

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being recycled worldwide, hundreds of millions to billions make their way into ...

New research estimates that approximately 60 tonnes of plastic debris discarded in the ocean reside within female green turtles at any given time.