Discover the latest findings from the International Marine Litter Research Unit as experts investigate how plastic waste ...

Researchers have found microplastic everywhere they've looked, including the remote sparsely populated island nation of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of tons of microplastics flow into the ocean every year, but tracking the movement and accumulation of those microscopic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Climate disruption and plastic pollution are two major environmental challenges that intersect in complex ways,” they explained. ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

Publishing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers at Kyushu University report that they have developed a new method to more accurately analyze the distribution of small ...

Plastic waste has haunted the world’s oceans for decades. What you may not realize is that the most dangerous pieces are often the ones you never see. Far below the ocean’s glittering surface, ...

To safeguard the oceans and preserve their ability to absorb carbon dioxide, they outline key priorities, which include reducing single-use plastics, improving waste management, promoting ...

Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered that most microplastics arrive through the air, settling onto treetops ...

A study conducted at the University of Warwick found a novel, inexpensive and innovative technique using a fluorescent dye to effectively identify the smallest microplastics in oceans, which go ...