Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

Plastic waste is sinking to the Mediterranean seafloor, creating one of the world’s biggest deep-sea pollution hotspots, a ...

A new study has uncovered the Levant Basin as one of the world's most concentrated graveyards for plastic packaging and the ...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. They have bellies so full of fragments, they crunch when touched.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Bergen and its partners contributed to the national plastic cleanup effort, with this year’s cleanup targeting Lisle Lyngøy, an island near Hellesøy ...

A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are ...

China, the Philippines, and India top the list of countries whose mismanaged plastic waste most frequently ends up polluting ...

Tofino, the tiny surf townon Vancouver Island, recently announced that single-use plastic water bottles that measure one ...