Researchers from Tel Aviv University found that marine creatures like ascidians can change the composition of microplastics, ...

American diver Victor Vescovo descended nearly seven miles to the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench in the ...

Authors of the new plastic waste report, echoing the first-year report, said after the plastic reduction law roughly 16.5 ...

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of ...

As a long-tail boat arrives at a fishing village on the southern island of Koh Chang, residents gather to sell their wares – ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic waste.

A marine biologist has recorded more types of plastic bottle washed up on Guernsey's beaches than the total variety of fish ...

A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes is floating in the Pacific Ocean.

According to Surfers Against Sewage, 8 million pieces of plastic pollution make their way into the ocean every day, killing 100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million sea birds every year.