Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

We've all seen the photos of attractive sea turtles sipping ocean cocktails through nose-straws, and the outlines of ocean bird bodies filled in with a colourful collage of bottle caps, but the true ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, inside the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, debris drifts into a broad ...

Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution. Long viewed simply as a floating mass of waste, the patch is now found to ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

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