In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...

Nanoplastics Make Up Most of the Ocean’s Plastic Pollution Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web.

As reported by Green Match, UNESCO once claimed that by 2050, the sea might contain more plastic than fish. What is even more concerning is that 92% of the overall plastic in the ocean is thought ...

A map from the Ocean Conservancy report, the "United States of Plastics. The group assessed state policies on plastic pollution based on 20 criteria and found that most states "need improvement." ...

Millions of tons of plastic in the ocean aren't floating in plain sight—they're invisible. Scientists have now confirmed that the most abundant form of plastic in the Atlantic is in the form of ...

By contrast, ocean nanoplastics (<1 μm) remain largely unquantified, leaving gaps in our understanding of the mass budget of this plastic size class,” they explained in a study published ...