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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...