The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues ...

“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant plastics degrade slowly at the surface, fragmenting into smaller particles over ...

Earthworms help crops recover in microplastic-polluted soil, boosting growth and restoring soil nutrients in a new Kunming ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

Study finds 170 trillion plastic particles in oceans; pollution set to persist for centuries without urgent action ...

With trillions of pieces of plastic littering oceans, threatening ocean and life and economic opportunity, drones, satellites ...

Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever back the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s 2030 Plastics Agenda, a five-year plan to cut packaging waste and scale circular plastics.

A basking shark found dead on a Moray beach had eaten plastic, according to experts who examined it. The fish, which was more ...

Lagos State and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) have called for broad collaboration to tackle plastic pollution, ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...