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 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, ...

What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and talks to experts to find out how ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup has taken another important step in its mission to rid the world's oceans of plastic with the announcement ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...