The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, inside the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, debris drifts into a broad ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

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Due to Hawaii’s economic and logistical challenges in recycling plastic waste, such as marine debris lingering in its ocean waters, researchers have been pioneering a method for recycling this waste ...

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...