In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

A new study shows cross-country collaboration in tackling marine plastic pollution yields significant economic and environmental ...

It hopes to deploy as many as 10 ocean cleanup systems at a time, its long-term goal being to rid the Pacific Ocean of most or all of the floating plastic pollution over a 10-year span.

Since New York’s ban on the distribution of single-use plastic bags took effect five years ago, Francisco Marte, who owns five bodegas in the Bronx with his brothers, has been conflicted about how to ...

Join the conversation in our Facebook group. Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling processes.

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

Researchers found microscopic plastic particles in bird lungs, raising concerns about air pollution and human health.

Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, impacting everything from the health of our oceans to human well-being. There are numerous alarming facts about ...

What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.

In addition to the deeply detrimental impact that plastic pollution is having on marine life ... the presence of alien invasive species that live on floating plastic debris can also result in serious ...

Between May and October 2024, a network of trash traps in the Toronto Harbour diverted more than 600-kg of anthropogenic (man ...

Thanks to a massive initiative over 100,000 pieces of plastic were removed from Lake Ontario last year. Throughout 2024, more than 600 kg of anthropogenic (man-made) debris was removed from the ...