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

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

The law isn’t doing much better than science at catching up with the problem. Dr. Anja Brandon, Associate Director of U.S. Plastics Policy at Ocean Conservancy, has a PhD in environmental ...

Thousands of animals, from small finches to blue whales, die grisly deaths from eating and getting caught in plastic. Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which ...

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

2. The Toxins in Plastic Poison Our Oceans. In addition to large plastic waste, the oceans contain trillions of microplastic* particles.We can now find microplastics in open oceans, freshwater sources ...

How Single Use Plastics Are Hurting Our Oceans and Warming Our Planet. November 1, 2023. Plastic is everywhere. It is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Using photosynthesis, tiny marine algae called phytoplankton then absorb that carbon into their bodies before passing it onto small ocean critters — zooplankton — that eat them.

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean. Researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa have recently discovered ...

So, while it is technically eating away at the garbage patch that has infiltrated the Pacific Ocean, it can’t do it fast enough to keep up with all the plastic still going into the ocean each ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...