Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

The end of the first voyage for The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit that hopes to rid the world of ocean plastic, is the end of a long journey for founder and CEO Boyan Slat, who first presented the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge collection of trash floating in the North Pacific Ocean. It’s made up mostly of plastic—things like water bottles, shoes, and fishing gear, but also a large ...

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fridge, toilet seats, and more than 63,000 pounds of trash. That's what a cleanup team recovered in a monthslong effort to chip ...

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ocean ...