Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

“We discovered that the ocean floor has become a resting place, or reservoir, for most plastic pollution, with between 3 to 11 million tonnes of plastic estimated to be sinking to the ocean floor.

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution Date: April 4, 2024 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ...

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

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

All that plastic in the ocean is a ... Once these carbon-containing pellets reach the ocean floor, ... and lab experiments have shown they can cause up to a 45 percent reduction in some ...

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, ...

Despite efforts to restrict single-use plastic bags from some countries, including the U.S., U.K. and China, CleanHub says single-use plastic production rates have increased. It notes about 137 ...

Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even in our bodies (Leslie et al, 2022). It may come as a shock to know that most of the plastic in the ocean is out of sight, ...

Denmark hopes to pump some climate gas beneath the sea floor; ... analysed ocean plastic trends from 1979 to 2019 using previously gathered and new data. Almost 12,000 new samples, ...

Plastic also disrupts important processes that help keep the planet functioning. For example, plankton on the ocean’s surface pull carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. When fish eat the ...