As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

We've all seen the photos of attractive sea turtles sipping ocean cocktails through nose-straws, and the outlines of ocean bird bodies filled in with a colourful collage of bottle caps, but the true ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...