The air in Geneva must have been thick; not with pollution, but with disappointment. After nine frantic days and one marathon ...

Often helium balloons drift over the ocean and become plastic debris. They may not look like jellyfish to you, but they do look like a meal to marine turtles.

Join us in this eye-opening adventure as we dive into the depths of the ocean for a unique mission: spearfishing plastic.

Plastic debris and policy: Using current scientific understanding to invoke positive change by Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Credit: Charles Rondeau/ public domain ...

Ingestion of marine plastic debris is commonplace at all levels of the food web, whether passively by filter feeders, like krill and many fish, or actively when mistaken for food by animals as ...

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 -- Tons of plastic debris get released into the ocean every day, and most of it accumulates within the middle of garbage patches, which tend to float on the oceans ...

This plastic debris poses additional challenges for Arctic ecosystems, which are already overly burdened by climate change. After all, the Arctic is warming at four times the global average rate.

Plastic debris dumped in the ocean over decades is breaking into microscopic particles that are cropping up everywhere from beaches to deep ocean sediment, according to a study being published ...

Plastic debris dumped in the ocean over decades is breaking into microscopic particles that are cropping up everywhere from beaches to deep ocean sediment, according to a study being published ...

Some of the plastic debris found on Washington shores comes from close by, some from much farther away, including flotsam from the 2011 tsunami that struck Japan.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A seabird snared by plastic six-pack rings, plastic pellets filling up a fish's stomach — such images isn't new. But what happens when tons of plastic debris slowly ...

An estimated 414 million pieces of debris are now littering the remote islands, and the vast majority of that waste is buried below the surface, according to a new study. But even that is likely ...