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

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

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

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

The Ocean Legacy Foundation aims to tackle this common plastic pollution by taking discarded fishing nets, ropes, and more ...

Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader says it's time for federal action.

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The TUM robot, which weighs in at 120 kg, is enveloped by a buoyancy foam that keeps it in a suspended-like state in the ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

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