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More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The ...

Ocean plastic pollution is accidentally on the menu for southern giant petrel chicks. Even small nibbles of it may affect ...

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 focused examination of recycled plastic bricks, assessing their potential to tackle plastic pollution and housing shortages ...

Plastic swallowed by young seabirds can sharply reduce their chances of surviving to adulthood and returning to breed, ...

Parts of the shipping industry are partnering with environmental scientists to monitor ocean plastic pollution.

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Marine plastic pollution is a massive environmental issue, with a plastic smog of an estimated 170 trillion particles afloat in the world’s oceans. This highlights how urgently we need to develop ...

We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture ...

Plastics and the long-lasting chemicals they're made of are accumulating in our oceans, leaching into our farm fields and piling up in landfills. Plastic is floating ...