“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

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

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

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

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

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

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

Our oceans are full of plastic — an estimated 200 million metric tons, according to The Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving oceans. And around the world, organizations large and ...

On average, a single ban means one person will not use roughly 300 plastic bags every year. When the Garden State put its ban ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

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