Tiny plastic pellets called nurdles are a major source of global pollution, littering waterways, harming ecosystems and threatening marine life. But plastic pellet pollution is preventable, according ...

BRATTLEBORO — Police determined a projectile lodged into a victim's abdomen earlier this month was a pellet. In a news release issued Monday, the Brattleboro Police Department said the 43-year-old ...

A 59-year-old businessman, Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe, has undergone an exploratory laparotomy to remove 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine that had remained stuck in his stomach for seven days after ...

New EU regulations could cut plastic pellet pollution by 74%, but exemptions for smaller companies and reliance on self-reporting raise concerns that loopholes may undermine efforts to stop billions ...

A 59-year-old businessman, Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe, has undergone an emergency laparotomy to remove 57 out of 81 cocaine pellets that remained lodged in his stomach for seven days after ingestion in ...

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 ...

The European Parliament on Thursday definitively adopted rules clamping down on pollution from the tiny pellets that constitute the building blocks of most plastic products. The text introduces new ...