To understand how plastic ends up in the deep sea, we have to look to land. Every year, “8 million tons of plastic leave land, down drains, streams, rivers, and waterways flowing into the ocean,” said ...

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

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

They then simulated nearly 7.7 million bits of plastic distributed across the sea and tracked their virtual paths to depths as great as about half a mile. Their results suggested that the slower the ...

A report by the environmental advocacy group Oceana found nearly 1,800 marine mammals and sea turtles either swallowed or become entangled in plastic in U.S. waters between 2009 and early 2020.

Sewage plants spreading millions of toxic plastic ‘nurdles’ across North Sea to the Netherlands, report finds. Heavy rainfall and spillages mean plastic ‘bio beads’ used to filter waste ...

A stream of bubbles is catching trash in Amsterdam’s Westerdok canal, preventing it from ultimately flowing into the North Sea.

Although cleaning up all plastic once it enters the environment is likely impossible, the amount that can currently be cleaned up, as this study shows, is not insignificant. Last year, more than a ...

The team showed for the first time that these deep-sea, plastic loving bacteria make up only 1% of the total bacterial community. Reporting their findings in the journal Environmental Pollution ...

A plastic bag floats around in the Sea of Marmara as wastes are collected by diving in the Sea of Marmara as part of the Environment Forum organized by Anadolu Agency (AA) in Istanbul, Oct. 20, 2022.

Low-Density Plastic Debris Dispersion beneath the Mediterranean Sea Surface. Environmental Science & Technology , 2023; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c08873 Cite This Page : ...