The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues ...

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

As he told ABC7, avoiding water from single-use plastic bottles is a good place for individuals to start. You can also use ...

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

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

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

Contrary to common belief, most large ocean plastics degrade very slowly at the surface, with about 10 percent still afloat ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Many measures have been initiated to reduce plastic pollution in Norway. Only a few of them will lead to extensive change and cleanup, a new study shows. Every year, many millions of tons of plastic ...

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

How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...