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 ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

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 ...

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

The Mediterranean has always been more than a sea — it is a shared cradle of culture, history, and prosperity. For centuries, ...

Commentary: Producing a significant amount of plastic waste doesn’t mean a country is a major contributor to plastic ...

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 ...

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