Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

An ongoing campaign in Dar es Salaam, led by the Forum on Climate Change (FORUMCC) in collaboration with various ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

Amid a global plastic-pollution crisis, artist Erik Jon Olson turns his own plastic waste into quilted works of art in which ...

For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water ...

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