Credit: Research paper While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising direction in environmental remediation. The challenge now lies in scaling ...

Coral reefs trap microplastics due to their mucus. Researchers confirmed that coral mucus acts as an adhesive.

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...

President Trump prefers plastic over paper, when it comes to straws. With today's signing of an executive order President ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

In Finland’s freezing Arctic, lakes and rivers have nourished the lifeways of Indigenous Skolt Sámi communities for ...

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...

Other potential microplastics sources our experts brought up are fabrics that touch your skin often (clothing, bedding, ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles under 5 mm, significantly impact climate change by disrupting carbon cycles, oceanic heat absorption, and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

The sheer scale of Earth's plastic problem has been laid bare in ... safe routes in and around the camp,' said Dr Clara Manno, an ocean ecologist at BAS. Worryingly, the implications of ...