Artist Barry Rosenthal builds these assemblages to illustrate the extent of marine pollution. He keeps trash in his studio for months—sometimes years—until a critical mass of color emerges.

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In Art of Now: Filth, Emma Critchley meets the artists who are finding original and compelling ways to help us understand the crisis of pollution. From costumes which glow red in response to ...

Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake.

This coming Earth Day, Sunday April 22, you won’t want to miss a new student art show on plastic pollution at the Buffalo Museum of Science. The art work showcased on that day will feature ...