Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis ... Protection Agency asking the government to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and will keep ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

like here at an island in the Pacific Ocean called Henderson Island. Thousands of bits of rubbish wash up here every day. Some of the plastic will sink under the waves where sea creatures can ...

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.