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

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

Study finds 170 trillion plastic particles in oceans; pollution set to persist for centuries without urgent action ...

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

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

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

The Ocean Legacy Foundation aims to tackle this common plastic pollution by taking discarded fishing nets, ropes, and more ...

Nurdles are small pellets used for plastic manufacturing. Evidence points to Texas as the source for nurdle pollution on ...

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have unveiled a tool that forecasts sewage-contamination levels at beaches in south San Diego County.

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 ...

New research finds that heavy pollution in Southeast Asia is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ...

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