“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

This episode visualizes the global crisis of ocean plastic pollution through detailed mapping and satellite data. We trace ...

Explore 8 beaches around the world that reveal the devastating effects of pollution on our shorelines. See how human impact ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

New research finds that heavy pollution in Southeast Asia is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ...

Published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the study is the third and ...

The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

Nurdles are small pellets used for plastic manufacturing. Evidence points to Texas as the source for nurdle pollution on ...

The RE-MAP project is part of the broader Clean and Healthy Ocean Integrated Program, which supports global efforts to reduce ...

Yet, as is so often the case, California’s attempt at addressing the problem only made it worse. The 2014 ban prohibited ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...