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 ...

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 ...

A lounge chair that doubles as a pool float? I’m In. Here are my thoughts after trying the Badesofa Poolsofa Floating Lounger ...

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 ...

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

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

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

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

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

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.