Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Plastic pollution harms marine life and ecosystems. Discover easy ways to cut plastic waste and join the call for a global ...

A new study finds that a handful of nations are responsible for the vast majority of plastic waste entering the world’s ...

By adding new filters at water treatment plants, PolyGone is removing microplastics from the water system—and then recycling ...

The study found seabirds face extreme risk after swallowing just 23 pieces of plastic, giving them a 90% chance of dying.

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

I used to think of ocean plastic as a slow, vague threat—something that chokes turtles and whales only after years of ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

Leading shipping companies are joining forces to combat ocean plastic pollution through the launch of the Maritime ...

Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the sea surface for 100 years, a study ...