Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to a shocking extent, a new study has discovered. Led by a team from Utrecht ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. A study published today reveals yet another hidden source of this deadly ...

Trillions of invisible plastic fragments—each smaller than a single bacterium—are polluting one section of ocean in volumes ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

Pelagic Pacific sea turtles eat relatively large quantities of plastic (median 5 g in gut). Using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, we identified the polymers ingested by 37 olive ridley, 9 ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

Plastic waste in the ocean has continued to be a topic of interest in the United States and globally. This plastic study will bring experts together to study the United States contributions to global ...

Filtered water at Bengaluru restaurants may not be as safe as assumed. A study finds that over 50% samples are contaminated ...

This November delegates from more than 170 nations will meet in Nairobi for the latest negotiations toward what experts describe as the most significant global environment pact since the 2015 Paris ...

Marine ecosystems are significantly threatened by plastic litter, hence, effective detection and monitoring techniques are necessary. The identification and classification of ocean plastic litter is ...