A study by the Asian Development Bank shows how everyday plastic waste in China’s Mulan River Basin is washed from land into rivers and eventually the ocean, with solid waste and agricultural plastics ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life. Scientists warn that this hidden pollution, dominated by plastics and ghost ...

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

Plastic in the ocean has long been treated as nothing more than a deadly pollutant. But scientists are now finding that for some marine animals, it has become something else entirely: a home. Floating ...

A floating trash barrier installed by Kabadiwalla Connect in Chennai’s Buckingham Canal aims to stop plastic waste before it ...

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