They may be convenient for some, but plastic products pose an immense problem when they end up polluting oceans around the ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. View on euronews ...

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

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity ... considered the five worst offenders when it comes to plastic pollution, according to a study published in Science, and ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist ...

As the flagship for Plastic Odyssey's mission in the U.S., this new Nonprofit entity is dedicated to tackling ocean plastic pollution by ... higher than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...