The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Discover the alarming truth about ocean plastic pollution in this in-depth video, which examines how millions of tons of plastic waste—from bags to microplastics—are contaminating our marine ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

Being able to identify and track floating masses of debris is critical to ocean clean-up efforts. Yet effective systems for doing that remain elusive, ...

Couldn’t we use bacteria to break down plastic in the environment so it isn’t such an ecosystem hazard? -- Patricia S., via email ...

Eleftheria Roumeli, a materials science and engineering associate professor, highlighted three challenges in the use of plastics that contribute to the urgent need for sustainable materials: excessive ...

Turn the Tide, a lively theatre-for-youth production written and directed by Meg van Wyk, will arrive at Theatre Arts in ...

Under the EPFL-led ADOPT project, researchers are combining AI satellite-image recognition with drift prediction models to ...

The Calypso Deep holds one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever recorded on Earth.

Imagine dining on “edible plastic” made from algae and collagen from fish skins. While you ingest the dish, ocean-borne plastic pollution seemingly floats above you, projected ...

Imagine dining on “edible plastic” made from algae and collagen from fish skins. While you ingest the dish, ocean-borne plastic pollution seemingly ...

The official investigation into the Fukushima disaster called it a “made in Japan” failure by a nuclear industry that suffered from regulatory capture, faulty leadership, defective engineering, and ...