Researchers found marine fungi capable of breaking down plastic. They tested fungi from Hawai‘i’s nearshore waters.

Discarded fishing nets, fishing lines, plastic and other waste are dangerous to aquatic birds, whales, dolphins, sea turtles and other marine animals, said Huang Shu-ting (黃蜀婷), president of a ...

Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. In a world that ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

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Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, helped negotiate the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging ...

Desmond Acquah, a pupil of Sea Breeze Preparatory School, said he would advise his peers and community members to return plastic bags, especially polythene, to traders after use as a way of curbing ...

Nanoplastics -- plastic particles smaller than 1 m -- are widely dispersed because of their low weight. A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ...

Researchers found nanoplastic contamination in Alpine glaciers, tracing the particles back to ocean waves and urban pollution ...

It is concerning if they die off as it means the sea – which we rely on for many things – is no longer healthy, says an ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Australian scientists have developed new technology that is set to have a real impact in combating this widespread problem.