With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our ...

On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there ...

A new study from the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering (CSE) found it can use sensors to detect ...

he says—ideally before the ocean turns, irretrievably and for centuries to come, into a thin soup of plastic. To ride currents, seahorses clutch drifting seagrass or other natural debris.

Welsh beaches may be among the cleanest in the UK, but that doesn’t mean that pollution isn’t an issue in Wales. Tonnes of plastic waste are discarded into the oceans each year. What are we ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

The Royal Middle School Oceanic Outlaws robotics team is headed to Nationals. The eight seventh- and eighth-grade students took home the Champion Finalist award at the FIRST LEGO League state ...

Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean ...

He has teamed up with experts and companies in marine-debris control ... when it becomes garbage in the sea. This could help reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean, lessening the ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...