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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Congressman Juan Carlos Losada, who helped conceive Colombia's single-use plastics ban, said beverage giants are greenwashing their image by publicly supporting sustainability while lobbying against ...

As United Nations members negotiate a new treaty to end plastic pollution, they must balance top-down efforts to curb production with support for on-the-ground initiatives that remove and recycle ...

The Lancet: Plastic pollution is an underrecognised threat to health, experts warn as they launch a project to track plastics’ health impacts and monitor progress Ahead of the expected finalisation of ...