The competition invites students to design, prototype and pitch engineering solutions aimed at preventing plastic pollution getting into our oceans ... documentary-level video and university-style ...

To raise awareness of the pervasiveness of plastic pollution and drive public action to address it, WWF released a new video ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Dr Guffogg's algorithm – called the Beached Plastic ...

BPDI tool identifies plastic on beaches from satellites by analyzing light reflections. This innovation supports targeted beach clean-ups.

“This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space,” ...

testosteroni’s ability to break down plastic. Though the bacteria are promising tools for combating pollution, they are not quite ready to be thrown into wastewater treatment plants and ...

The intergovernmental negotiating committee will meet in Busan, South Korea, in November to finalise an international legally binding agreement on plastic pollution. Plastic is useful; it can be ...

More information: Dong Sheng et al, Plastic pollution in agricultural landscapes: an overlooked threat to pollination, biocontrol and food security, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

A pioneering IAEA mission to Antarctica has found evidence of microplastic pollution in lakes, shorelines and the ocean. These preliminary findings show how plastic pollution has reached every corner ...

Two weeks after birth, two newborn rats—one male and one female—were tested for micro- and nanoplastic exposure. In both cases, the same type of plastic that the mothers inhaled during ...

Our study highlights how extensive plastic pollution is – and how other living things, including dolphins, are exposed. While the impacts of plastic inhalation on dolphins’ lungs are not yet ...