Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

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A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

For this research, Utrecht master student Sophie ten Hietbrink worked for four weeks aboard the research vessel RV Pelagia. On a trip from the Azores to the continental shelf of Europe, she took water ...

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to a shocking extent, a new study has discovered.

This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in the this part of the ocean, than there is in larger micro- or ...

For over 20 days, a vital road outside Ghazipur Mandi remained buried under sewage, rainwater and floating garbage. It looked ...

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

So, dear Dhaka, until the next monsoon: keep your raincoat, your boots, your memes, and your gallows humour. Above all, keep ...

Food in containers made of the white plastic foam can no longer be given to diners who eat in, take leftovers or pick up takeout orders.

The two back-to-back episodes have laid bare the state’s vulnerabilities in responding effectively to the subsequent environmental damage ...