The plastic pollution crisis has become one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the modern age. With millions of tons of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans each year, the ...

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a series of guest opinions from Crestview Elementary School 5th graders. Each piece was submitted with permission from the author’s parents. In the middle ...

Our study analysed genetic information from microorganisms in the ocean, using data from ... a role in influencing microbial plastic degradation. This graph shows that locations with more plastic ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

“Marine plastic litter pollution is already affecting more than 800 marine species ... of Plastic Litter and Microplastics in the Ocean, is in response to the lack of an internationally agreed ...

So, if we disrupt the ability of the ocean to do this, it will just make climate change that much worse.” “We know from experiments that plastic could affect their [aquatic animal’s ...

Researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean ... affecting vulnerable, low-income, minority communities, particularly children. Toxic chemicals that are added to plastics and routinely ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

While removing ocean plastic is important, Helm says, she worries about how this technology is affecting the assemblage of marine life living at the ocean’s surface, which is known collectively ...

Now the voyages will aid scientists’ understanding of how the Los Angeles fires may alter the ocean ... cars, plastics, building materials — means the LA fires may affect the environment ...

With all the plastic going into and affecting the ocean, saying that “there’s not that much plastic” and “it’s better in the ocean” shouldn’t happen. Additionally, there are many ...