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

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

The Ocean Legacy Foundation aims to tackle this common plastic pollution by taking discarded fishing nets, ropes, and more ...

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

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn - Micro- and nanoplastics found in ...

Scientists have discovered a possible new tool for addressing the growing problem of plastic pollution in the world's oceans. A recently published study by an international consortium of researchers ...

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 ...

Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader says it's time for federal action.

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...