“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

From the column: "The tiny role U.S. consumers have in ocean plastic pollution by itself is a compelling reason to reject ...

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

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

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

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

Using artificial intelligence to process drone images is allowing researchers to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean in new ways. Oceanographers and computer scientists in Japan are spearheading an ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...