Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

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 ...

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.

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Plastic-coated fertilizers used on farms are emerging as a major but hidden source of ocean microplastics. A new study found ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11,000 meters depth. This was no accident. The discovery ...

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 ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

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 ...

We like to think that tossing a plastic bottle into a recycling bin means we’ve done our part, but the […] ...