Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

Researchers from the National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center in Dalian, China, and the School of Environment at ...

Plastic pollution is a big problem for our oceans and although in recent years, people have started cutting down on plastic consumption, as we have realized the effects plastic pollution can have ...

In a report published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from Kyushu University have for the first time, provided a clear numerical target for global efforts to tackle marine plastic ...

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.

Plastic waste travels from inland communities to the ocean through rivers, but new research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory shows how to stop it at the source. Spanning eight ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...

Ocean plastics pollution has become one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. This video maps where plastic ...

As the scale and extent of the effects from plastic pollution trigger regulation, customer concern, media controversy, and changes in market dynamics, companies will have to better understand how ...

The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting. This is understandable.

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. Scientists tested the effects of new PVC pellets (pre-production “nurdles” used to ...

The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.