Plastic pollution is a severe environmental issue, especially affecting our oceans. Each year, millions of tons of plastic ...

All over the world, researchers like Magadini are staring through microscopes at tiny pieces of plastic—fibers, fragments, or microbeads—that have made their way into marine and freshwater ...

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all marine pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its ...

Plastics are becoming more present in the seas and oceans around the world. The Mediterranean — a semi-enclosed marine basin ...

When it comes to the ocean, not everyone fully understands its significance to human life, marine biodiversity, and the ...

And of that waste, a staggering 6.3 billion tons ... of a fish into the flesh we actually eat. (See We Know Plastic Is Harming Marine Life. What About Us?) He worries more about the things that ...

It is clogging our sewers, seas, and farmlands. Not only is plastic waste killing marine life, it has also made its way into the food chain and into the human body as microplastics. In 2019, the ...

They are too small to be filtered out by waste water plants and end up being consumed by small marine species ... What will you do to start cutting the plastic in your life? We’re working with Sky to ...

A CSIRO study has found 39% less plastic pollution in and around Australian coastal cities over ten years. It also found more ...

Plastic constitutes 70–80% of all waste in oceans, posing problems for ecosystem and marine life. At the G20 summit in Japan in 2019, 87 countries and regions endorsed the Osaka Blue Ocean ...

KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--For third-grader Yuki Harasawa, a video on YouTube about plastic waste was the last straw. She decided there and then to stop using plastic straws provided during lunch ...