A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host ...

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

in line with the UN Global Plastics Treaty against plastic pollution, which is still pending approval,” said Canals. “The ocean floor is still largely unknown to society as a whole, which makes it ...

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

Barker feels in her gut the reality that no area in the world is free from plastic anymore, “from the poles to the Equator, from the sea surface to the ocean floor.” She wants the rest of us ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The award-winning documentary A Plastic Ocean by Australian journalist Craig Leeson investigates the devastating impact plastic has had on our environment, especially our marine life. Young Post ...

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 ...