Few humans will ever reach these depths. Scientists issue dire warning after making disturbing discovery at the bottom of the ...

A new report by Oceana warns plastic foam has become an “ever-present part of modern life” and must be phased out at a local, ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in ...

Studies estimate there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor. Not one square mile of surface ocean ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

More than 100 million tons of plastic, mostly microscopic particles, coat the ocean floor. “We expect this study will take a year to complete and we will be looking at the impacts of plastic on human ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million ...