The researchers will immerse plastic films in freshwater samples (taken from a canal in Lowell) and expose them to ...

The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays forever in the sand -- a layer of man's doing that will never go away. Midway will probably vanish under rising ocean levels before the ...

A JRC-led study recently published in Marine Pollution Bulletin has revealed that the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, ...

With the equivalent of about 625,000 garbage trucks of plastic entering the ocean each year, finding ways to degrade these compounds is critical. Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating ...

As these heartbreaking images reveal, plastic pollution can have a deadly impact on every inhabitant of our oceans. From the hermit crabs forced to live in toothpaste lids to the sperm whales ...

“Our research highlights marine fungi as a promising and largely untapped group to investigate for new ways to recycle and remove plastic from nature. Very few people study fungi in the ocean, and we ...

Their straws are made from canola oil and can biodegrade on land and in the ocean. In 2020 ... between five to 12 cents per unit. Plastic straws cost under two cents per unit, according to ...

Under the order, which is aimed at “bringing ... And while sharks may be able to “munch their way” through a plastic straw in the ocean, not all marine life can do the same.

President Donald Trump signed an order this week to phase out paper straws in federal agencies. Will Florida cities be ...

“Plastic production and waste have doubled over the past two decades, littering our ocean, poisoning the air of communities near production facilities, and threatening public health,” the ...