Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Discover which countries are responsible for the most plastic waste that ends up on beaches and coasts around the world Take a walk along any beach in the world and you’re likely to find some sort of ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite ...

Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in the farthest reaches of the ocean. A teen from Ireland may have found the solution to rid world's oceans from the microplastics that are near impossible to ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...