The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...

A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution -- by 91% and plastic-related ...

Research sheds new light on the spread of microplastics, revealing a surprising "hitchhiking" mechanism that could impact ...

A groundbreaking new study published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering reveals that cellulose diacetate (CDA)-based foams made with Eastman Aventa ™ compostable materials rapidly biodegrade ...

Climate change is already causing native fish species to flee northward or die, and it’s only expected to get worse, local ...

Penn State researchers found that microplastic levels in freshwater have risen with global plastic production, though they ...

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space." ...

Award-winning architect Lenka Petráková is pioneering a new way to tackle ocean pollution with an ambitious project named ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a swirling trash mass three times bigger than France ...

As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a unique environment ... a flow dynamicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and co-author of a 2023 review ...

It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

A novel, highly porous, biodegradable plastic has been found to degrade in seawater far ... Marine chemists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, US, in partnership with ...