An ambitious but controversial plan to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch moves closer to reality this week, with…

Two reports out this week paint an alarming future for Earth’s oceans. The first one, published by the Wold Economic…

A new study on seabirds has come to a disturbing conclusion: Their bellies are filled with plastic. Up to 90% of marine…

Garbage in the ocean is a big problem, but until now we didn't know how big. A study published today in Science drops a…

Things have gotten so bad with the human predilection for dumping plastic in the seas that, by the latest predictions,…

On the quaint coast of Cornwall, near the town of Perranporth, there's a beach that's constantly covered in Lego. Tiny…

Last week, some strange news swept the science internet: Much of the plastic scientists expected to find on the…