The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues ...

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

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

With trillions of pieces of plastic littering oceans, threatening ocean and life and economic opportunity, drones, satellites ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows. High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new ...

As recently as the 1960s, perhaps later—within the life span of Tom Hanks, and within a few years of when the world was using its very first ATMs and contraceptive pills—nearly all of the planet’s sea ...