A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

A couple of years ago, Miami-Dade County launched Plastic Free 305 and the Debris Free Oceans team has been helping the county on that initiative, Waks says.

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Ocean pollution poses risks to both marine and human life, and a sunken cargo ship is polluting the shores of Sri Lanka, ...

Sunscreen chemicals like EHMC may be silently increasing ocean plastic pollution by strengthening harmful microbial biofilms ...

Ocean Cleanup finds itself in a race against time to rid the oceans of hard plastic debris before it deteriorates into a microplastic stew that poisons the oceans for decades.

This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in the this part of the ocean, than there is in larger micro- or ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

A Holly Springs teen’s startup turns recycled bottles into swimwear and removes a pound of ocean plastic for every sale.

Voice of the Oceans will raise awareness on ocean plastic waste at COP30 in Belém, with a special public space.