Somewhere between Hawaii and California, ocean currents have been quietly gathering decades of discarded plastic into a ...

A single whale stomach held 88 pounds of plastic bags, rice sacks, and packaging, yet ocean wildlife faces threats far ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...

Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle ...

Adults can unknowingly pass along bits of plastic through regurgitation.

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

Kia has renewed its electric vehicle (EV) fleet supplied to The Ocean Cleanup, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to ...

Plastic is everywhere. Plastic on the North Pole. Plastic on the South Pole. Plastic on top of Mt. Everest. Plastic at the ...

Ocean plastic pollution is accidentally on the menu for southern giant petrel chicks. Even small nibbles of it may affect ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

Material technology specialist PrimaLoft Inc. and environmental organization Parley for the Oceans have formed a strategic partnership that will reclaim plastic intercepted from remote islands, ...