Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean—a semi-enclosed marine basin—is one of the seas that accumulates more plastic waste from the continent, a ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

WHY IT RATES: Monty Halls and the HX Foundation join forces to launch a groundbreaking citizen science initiative to tackle marine pollution. —Janeen Christoff, TravelPulse Managing Editor A ...

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with ...

Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate impacts on apex predators such as orcas. Join the ...

The MSC ELSA-3 shipwreck, off Kerala’s coast in southern India, spilled oil and plastic pellets, with potential impacts on marine life, coastal ecosystems and fishing livelihoods. Gaps in maritime law ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating through urban air, far exceeding earlier estimates. Road dust and rainfall ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every ...