Discover the latest findings from the International Marine Litter Research Unit as experts investigate how plastic waste decomposes and releases microplastics into the environment. The video provides ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. (Jay Karr/Island Packet) We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly, and we have ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.

A new report has been released by Germany-based ocean plastic recovery startup CleanHub that highlights ocean plastic pollution this year, as well as a look into its complex origins and what the ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose.

When Washington commissioned a study on its plastic bag ban and it came back with inconvenient results, officials decided to ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Over the 40 years that I have known her, I have come to have great respect for my wife’s political antenna. When she says something about a politician or an issue, I have learned that it’s best to pay ...

That is, until it isn’t. The latest backtrack? Turns out there’s less plastic in the oceans than claimed. Far less. Per a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of ...

Plastic bags pollute our environment and break down into microplastics that contaminate our drinking water and threaten our health,” said Jenn Engstrom of the California Public Interest Research Group ...

Clorox Australia Pty Ltd. is being ordered to pay a multimillion-dollar fine in Australia for making "false or misleading" claims regarding a line trash bags that claimed to include ocean plastics.