Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the coastal bays and streams near her tiny hometown of Seadrift, Texas. But ...

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 ...

Environmental advocates urged Colorado state lawmakers to crack down on tiny plastic pellets they say are polluting waterways ...

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 ...

SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. (WRGB) — More than two weeks after a train derailed in Valley Falls, the clean up isn’t over. Plastic pellets that spilled into the Hoosic River from one of the derailed cars are ...

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 ...

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 ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. (KGTV) — Tiny pieces of plastic called nurdles are being spotted along train tracks and at beaches in San Diego County. Local nonprofits tell ABC 10News that they think they know who ...

Gary Stokes of Sea Shepherd Hong Kong, right, and Tracey Read of DB Green with sacks of plastic pellets found on the Hong Kong coastline. (Photo by Gary Stokes courtesy Sea Shepherd) HONG KONG, China, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit between two environmental groups and a company involving plastic pellets that washed up on Sullivan’s Island in the summer of 2019.