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

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 ...

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 ...

A breakthrough satellite tool can detect plastic pollution on remote beaches from over 600km above, enabling more effective ...

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 ...