The new research might seem like good news, but the full picture ... pollution in the ocean is floating plastic, and that’s what’s most problematic for marine life because it can readily ...

Indeed, when it comes to plastics, consumers of seafood may be eating so much of the pernicious pollution that ... microplastics in the ocean." Though you can neither feel or taste it (usually ...

Disease-causing bacteria, including the type behind flesh-eating infections, can colonize rafts of seaweed and plastic pollution in the ocean, raising concerns about the risks to humans if they ...

Scientists have discovered a possible new tool for addressing the growing problem of plastic pollution in the ... which lives on plastic litter in the ocean. The fungus is capable of breaking ...

Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia ... says that when it comes to cleaning up microplastic pollution in the ocean, the key is to stem the flow. We should start, she says, by ...

The scientists said that the findings suggest plastic pollution ... open ocean. Unlike organic material that decomposes and sinks within months or, at most, a few years, plastic debris can float ...

A new AI-powered solution could transform how we clean up plastic pollution ... Ocean Cleanup, the algorithm helps optimize the paths taken by plastic-collecting ships. "With analytics, we can ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have genetically engineered bacteria to break down a source of plastic pollution in the ocean ... actually more than we can imagine.” ...