On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there ...
A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.
There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around the world’s oceans - and one country has been named the worst polluter. Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth ...
WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed artery-clogging plaques from over 250 patients and found ...
is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic - the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on ...
For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags ... the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more plastic in ...
oceans are dominated by a handful of massive gyres, circular currents that continuously suck debris into their centers. In addition to amassing pieces of floating wood and seaweed, a single gyre can ...
Plastic pollution is one of the most looming environmental crises in the world Be it in the ocean in landfills or even in the air one breathes plastic waste floats flies or moves along winds and river ...
Another way is through machines, like this one, that clean up plastic floating in our oceans and bring it back to land to be recycled. Scientists are also working on making a bacteria that could ...
Due to ocean currents gyrating swirls of garbage like fishing nets, plastic water bottles, and other items that wash out of landfills, a floating garbage patch exists throughout the world’s gyres.
WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...