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 ...
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How Plastic Pollution Is Pushing Oceans and Marine Animals Toward Collapse
Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...
Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, ...
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Where Does It All Go? Uncovering the Mystery of 8 Million Tons of Ocean Plastic Disappearing Each Year
Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats facing our oceans today. Each year, over 8 million tons of plastic—ranging from bags and bottles to straws—finds its way into the marine environment.
A new study offers the first estimate of nanoplastic pollution in the ocean. There’s a lot. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey What do human brains, placentas and dolphin breath have in common? Signs of plastic ...
Earlier this month the National Academy of Sciences released a study that shows how small amounts of plastics result in death ...
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 ...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Transforming Into a Wildlife Hotspot — And That's a Problem
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...
Researchers in North Carolina placed chips in plastic bottles to track their journey from local creeks to the ocean. The ...
This week, Greenland launched two “Plastic in a Bottle” capsules to track how plastic pollution travels in the Arctic marine ...
Nanoplastics have been notoriously challenging to measure in the environment. Only a handful of studies have detected them in marine settings, focusing on coastal waters 4 and the sea surface 5. The ...
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