More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

Undergraduate and graduate students took a lead role in a Virginia Tech study that analyzed global research on marine debris, ...

Forget the seaside, there’s one body of water on Earth that doesn’t touch a single coastline. The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea and it’s characterised by its ...

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