Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million ...

Humans pollute over 10 million tons of plastic trash into oceans every year. It's estimated that by 2030 that figure could ...

The new satellite imaging system can differentiate plastic on the beach, and may be a valuable tool for future clean-up ...

Plastic is a concerning issue, but in marine environments, it's the most concerning. New satellite technology allows ...

The Ministry of Environment said on Tuesday that bottled spring water contains, on average, 1.32 pieces of microplastics per ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic ... ocean compared to how much is expected to be there given the input to the ocean from rivers.” Warner said these findings suggest that there will continue to be ...

A breakthrough satellite tool can detect plastic pollution on remote beaches from over 600km above, enabling more effective ...

Microplastics have been detected in human brains, the bellies of sea turtles and the roots ... The team suspended the four types of plastics in small droplets of water and slowly cooled the ...

The scientists studied four types of microplastics in a lab by suspending them in small droplets of water and slowly cooling ... Celsius for most of the plastics studied, leading to the conclusion ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ...

"This is incredibly exciting, as up to now we have not had a tool for detecting plastics in coastal environments from space." ...