The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher hosted Shark Awareness Day to highlight the growing threats facing sharks, including overfishing and public misunderstanding. The event aimed to educate ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

Rice is also a hot spot for microplastics. A University of Queensland study found that for every half cup of rice, there are ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. A study published today reveals yet another hidden source of this deadly ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Negotiations toward a global, legally binding plastics treaty are set to resume this summer, with the United Nations ...

Why wasn’t this ever mentioned in The Very Hungry Caterpillar? It turns out, some caterpillars aren’t content with eating through apples, salami, and a piece of cherry pie – they're insatiable ...