In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday ...

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have uncovered a shocking discovery in the Mediterranean’s deepest trench.

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

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

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 ...

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