The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better monitoring of a rapidly changing environment ...

"Not every plastic is suitable for this processing ... is of the highest importance," she said. On June 25, the Arctic Floating University departed from Arkhangelsk to conduct research in ...

In fact, the so-called global plastic flood has reached the Arctic, as warned by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, who have just confirmed that microplastic pollution in the ...

Participants in the Arctic Floating University's expedition ... Noteworthy, the expert said, only 15% of plastic waste remains floating. About 15% is washed ashore, and the rest sinks to the ...

including the deep ocean and the Arctic ice, raising growing concerns about their impact on health and the environment. With more than 358 trillion microplastic particles floating on the surface ...

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 ...

Why is plastic pollution a problem? Plastic pollution is the most visible example of the havoc we’re causing to our planet. From our local beaches to the remote Arctic, it is choking our oceans and ...