Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic pollution could linger on ocean surfaces for over 100 years, researchers warn Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are ...

Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

In a significant step towards tackling marine pollution, The Ocean Cleanup has officially begun its operations in India, ...

A blackened chunk of expanded plastic foam lies on a beach atop of a large mass of brown seaweed. A person in a raincoat walks in the distance, picking up trash as they go along. In 2020, plastic ...

Distributed edge AI enables ocean plastic monitoring using vessel-based cameras, offline-first pipelines, and scalable ...

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

Mumbai releases nearly five million kilograms of plastic waste into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean each year, making it a key contributor to global marine pollution, according to a study by The ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...