Marine plastic pollution is present in all oceans, including remote oceanic islands. Despite the increasing number of articles on plastic pollution in the last years, there is still a lack of studies in islands, that are biodiversity hotspots when compared to the surrounding ocean, and even other...
The problem of plastic pollution in the world’s seas and oceans has attracted increasing scientific concern1, with calls for an international agreement to address this issue. Any such agreement would extend, complement, and also challenge existing international, regional, national, sub-national, and...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating how satellites can aid in detecting and mitigating plastic pollution in the ocean. Meet bag, bottle, and straw, three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are only small, but they are heading into the ocean, where they could cause big ...
The Ocean Cleanup aims to tackle the 1,000 most polluting rivers, responsible for about 80 percent of ocean plastic pollution, before the end of 2025. Preventing the Flow Plastic Pollution in the Oceans The invention was unveiled to prevent the unrelenting flow of plastic pollution into the worl...
A 3D global marine plastic mass budget suggests that larger items contribute more than 95% of buoyant plastics by mass and are longer lived than previously estimated, which suggests there is no missing sink of marine plastic pollution. Mikael L. A. Kaandorp ...
Human activity presents the biggest threat to oceans as more than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities and waste, specifically plastics. An estimated eight million tonnes of plastic reach our oceans every year, where a total of150 million tonnes of plastic wastehas alrea...
Human activities have produced a range of stressors in the marine environment which have direct and indirect effects on people, planet and prosperity. Marine ecosystems across the Pacific are being increasingly affected by stressors such as pollution, ov
Plastic waste in the ocean is making its way back to land and increasing pollution on Australia’s beaches, according to new research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. New research shows that plastic waste from our oceans is ending up back on land, where it becomes trapped in...
American Chemical Society Fish Marine Biology Oceanography Plastic Pollution Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email Related Articles Scientists Warn of Likely Massive Oil Spill: Abandoned Tanker Has 4 Times the Amount of Oil As the Exxon Valdez Key to Past & Future Habitat of West...
In 2024, The Ocean Cleanup made significant progress toward ridding the world’s oceans of plastic. From scaling up our work in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) to expanding river… Nice! 🎉 You’re all set. We send a newsletter every month—stay tuned for the next one!