Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

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

The study looked at 415 ocean samples, and nearly 80% had some kind of PET-degrading enzyme. Scientists stunned after ...

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

Contrary to common belief, most large ocean plastics degrade very slowly at the surface, with about 10 percent still afloat ...

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

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

From the column: "The tiny role U.S. consumers have in ocean plastic pollution by itself is a compelling reason to reject ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...