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

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

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

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 ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

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

With trillions of pieces of plastic littering oceans, threatening ocean and life and economic opportunity, drones, satellites ...

THE Philippine capital has been named one of the key cities in the 30 Cities Program of The Ocean Cleanup (TOC), a global initiative aimed at drastically reducing plastic waste flowing from rivers ...

A new study says plastic pellets from Texas pollute the Mexican coastline, but not so much the other way around.

The study reveals that ocean plastics will persist for over a century, emphasizing the critical need for improved waste ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to laws addressing plastic pollution, the vast majority of states need improvement to reduce, reuse and recycle, according to the new United States of Plastic Report from ...