Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn - Micro- and nanoplastics found in ...

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš was hoping she’d be a part of history last month when more than 170 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to forge a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Dan Daher rolled out at 5 a.m. from the shaded parking lot behind the Torres Martinez Tribal Community Hall in Mecca, as he does every Sunday through Thursday. By day's end, he'll have logged nearly ...

Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has stepped up its efforts to stop the discharge of ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...