Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

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Even if plastic pollution stopped entirely today, floating plastic would remain on the surface of the sea for 100 years, ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists ...

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “garbage patches” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water's surface for more than a century, a new study has found. Scientists ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study. A team of ...

Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...