Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. View on euronews ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

Learn more about the marine fungi that could be conditioned to help clean up Hawai’i’s beaches.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Our lives are filled with plastic items: the bottles containing ... they make their way down rivers into the world’s oceans, where they become nonbiodegradable threats to the marine biosphere ...

Facts About Plastic Pollution and Microplastics Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time, impacting everything from the health of our oceans to human well-being.

Trump’s legacy will be climate chaos, mass extinction, and oceans filled with plastic.” As reported by The New York Times this week, Shell’s Monaca plant would produce more than million tons of ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of ... The flat is in a garbage-filled slum named Aroma, next to another slum named Happyland. Every day Siena rides a rickety bicycle ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...