The presence of small plastic pellets on the beaches of Donostia and Orio has drawn attention to a little-studied source of ...

A submarine dove 5,112 meters into the Mediterranean and uncovered a catastrophic plastic waste crisis.

Unfortunately, as far as the Mediterranean is concerned, it would not be wrong to say that "not a single inch of it is clean." ...

TOKYO – Marine waste that has drifted over from other Asian countries is causing problems in prefectures along the Sea of Japan. Intergovernmental negotiations held in Switzerland through Aug 15 ...

MIT researchers have identified how communities of ocean bacteria cooperate to decompose biodegradable plastics, a finding ...

Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment. When the river bends, shredded plastic, degraded by the elements, forms ...

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Nearly 5 million kilograms of plastic waste flow into the Arabian Sea from around 50 nallahs across Mumbai every year, according to a year-long study conducted by The Ocean Cleanup (TOC), a ...

The data is building that plastics have the potential to adversely impact human health,” says Linda S. Birnbaum, a toxicologist and the former director of the National Institute of Environmental ...

A groundbreaking new study has uncovered the Levant Basin as one of the world's most concentrated graveyards for plastic packaging and the mechanisms that help the plastic sink down to the seafloor.