Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger ...

The negative consequences of plastic are everywhere and affect everyone. Microplastics are now found throughout our bodies, ...

A silent crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of our oceans, and it’s worse than feared. Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University have ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the journey of plastic waste from rivers, primarily in Southeast Asia, to the ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

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 ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite ...