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

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

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Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean - bags, cups, straws, and many other items from the daily life of every person. But despite such a tremendous figure, scientists have ...

Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

Millions of tons of plastic in the ocean aren't floating in plain sight—they're invisible. Scientists have now confirmed that the most abundant form of plastic in the Atlantic is in the form of ...

Plastic debris often travels thousands of kilometers across oceans, carried solely by currents, wind, tides, and time. For example, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a massive swirling zone between ...

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account ...

Marine debris is man-made material that “persists” in oceans and along coastlines — mostly commercial fishing gear from foreign-flagged operations, but also cigarette butts, sneakers and all kinds of ...