Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

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

The problem isn’t going away any time soon, Queen Mary University of London researchers warned in a new assessment Thursday. “People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears.

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality is more complex and far more persistent. Even if we stopped all plastic ...

Large, buoyant plastic items degrade over decades, shedding microplastics as they go. These tiny fragments may eventually ...

"This kind of source-tracking can be applied globally." Scientists make troubling discovery after studying 'mermaid tears' in ...

Using artificial intelligence to process drone images is allowing researchers to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean in new ways. Oceanographers and computer scientists in Japan are spearheading an ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...