Scientists have discovered that the ocean’s “missing” plastic hasn’t vanished—it has broken down into trillions of invisible nanoplastics now spread through water, air, and living organisms. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A silent crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of our oceans, and it’s worse than feared. Scientists from the Royal Netherlands ...

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 ...

There are massive "islands" of plastic swirling around our oceans at the moment, the biggest of which is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Yet, researchers have now revealed that there are millions ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time and found they make up the vast majority of marine plastic pollution. Plastic debris in the ocean can be of ...

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account ...

Ocean Conservancy created a Wildlife Impact Calculator to help you understand the real benefits of your beach cleanups.

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

PRAIA, April 2 (Xinhua) -- President of Cape Verde Jose Maria Neves has sent a letter to his counterparts in 20 African countries along the Atlantic coast, calling for stronger bilateral and regional ...