Microplastics – pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters – were found in 55 juvenile northern hogsucker fish in tributaries of the Cheat, Ohio and Monongahela Rivers.

Yet, in action, the conservation of the Great Lakes and their abundant natural resources has been ultimately unsuccessful, ...

Stronger regulations, corporate accountability, and funding for more research are all critical. Researchers make disturbing ...

The Brunei government is taking various measures to support marine conservation and the sustainable use of ocean resources.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

New research shows that a combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airbourne ...

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

We propose electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) enhanced by machine learning (ML), in particular support vector machines (SVMs), as a noninvasive, in situ method for detecting microplastics in ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

A new study reveals that microplastics are present in sediments throughout the Whittard Canyon – a submarine canyon off the ...

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...