Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

Humans dump about 10 million tons of plastic in the world’s oceans every single year – and it is beginning to create some serious problems. Besides being unsightly, the litter is damaging the marine ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A 2,000 foot-long floating pipe nicknamed ...

Plastic has been found in every single part of the ocean, from the surface to the seafloor and from the tropics to the poles. Land-based sources of plastic account for the majority of this pollution, ...