Most plastic pollution is produced in places where people have ‘no option but to dump or burn it’, lead author Dr Costas Velis says. Areas where there is no access to organised waste ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

Thanks to satellite images and advanced algorithms, researchers have succeeded in developing an initial, fairly precise map of the plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. For a long time ...