Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

“People often assume that plastic in the ocean just sinks or disappears. But our model shows that most large, buoyant ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years ...

The study looked at 415 ocean samples, and nearly 80% had some kind of PET-degrading enzyme. Scientists stunned after ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

A newly discovered enzyme motif reveals how ocean microbes are evolving to digest plastic, potentially aiding future cleanup ...

Scientists have discovered a possible new tool for addressing the growing problem of plastic pollution in the world's oceans. A recently published study by an international consortium of researchers ...

Commentary: Producing a significant amount of plastic waste doesn’t mean a country is a major contributor to plastic pollution in the ocean.

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...