You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, or perhaps birds with stomachs full of microplastics. We also know there ...

The ocean surface retains a stubborn trace of our plastic waste. Even if we were to stop all pollution today, these residues would persist for decades, or even more than a century. This worrying ...

Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...

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 ...

Santa Monica College biology professor Dr. Garen Baghdasarian and his wife Sara Bayles, a writer/blogger and environmental activist, will set sail in March to document plastic pollution in the Pacific ...

Researchers in North Carolina placed chips in plastic bottles to track their journey from local creeks to the ocean. The findings so far are unexpected.

Scientists estimated that a green sea turtle could contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic, equivalent to approximately 10 ping-pong balls. The Conversation reported on the prevalence of plastic ingestion ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...