New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

When people walk into the recycling facility of FirstStar Fiber in Omaha, they see bags of trash from floor to ceiling. But it’s not going to a landfill. “What makes FirstStar recycling unique is then ...

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 ...

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

Seaweed Greens has discovered how to remove pollutants from sargassum to make organic fertilizer and other environmentally ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to ...

Rather, we have microplastics, and a sea rife top to bottom with them, as we’ve just learned from a study funded by and published in conjunction with the U.S. National Science Foundation. In a sense, ...

Attenborough at 99 delivers 'greatest message he's ever told' Oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat "What we have done to the deep ocean floor is just unspeakably awful," said Sir David.

Even though we have satellites that can map whole continents and GPS that guides us through the most remote places, the ocean still hides many secrets. The Pacific Ocean– the largest and deepest ...