Microplastics are pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters across, shown here in sand washed up on a beach. (Getty) While ...

An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...

Making up a huge part of our highly polluting waste, PET plastics include the plastic bottles that we all use almost every ...

The lead investigator, Kara Lavendar Law, said they found the highest concentrations of plastics between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude, an offshore patch equivalent to the area between roughly ...

been used to help scientists identify plastics floating in the ocean and in giant garbage patches like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This process works relatively well for identifying large ...

Plastic is a concerning issue, but in marine environments, it's the most concerning. New satellite technology allows ...

up to gigantic floating trash islands like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is three times the size of France. However, the satellite technology used to spot plastic floating in water doesn ...

up to gigantic floating trash islands like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is three times the size of France. However, the satellite technology used to spot plastic floating in water doesn ...

Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...