Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

would reduce the amount of ocean plastic pollution by less than 1%. Despite that, it could be that we still have a big impact. In fact, we don’t really know how much impact plastic bags have on ...

Thanks to satellite images and advanced algorithms, researchers have succeeded in developing an initial, fairly precise map of the plastic pollution ... world's seas and oceans.

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...