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Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates ...

Nick Pumphrey is a fashion and lifestyle photographer who is also an ambassador for Take 3, and Australian non-profit that ...

Negotiators working on a potentially historic international agreement to limit plastic pollution wrapped up talks this week in Ottawa, Canada, leaving some observers with guarded hope about the ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land,” and ...

When you think of plastic in the oceans, you might think of the Pacific Garbage Patch being the worst of our problems. However, it turns out there are many more areas of pollution throughout the ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

UC San Diego will lead a major new study of the source, fate and possible toxicity of ocean contaminants and how such pollution is being affected by Earth’s changing climate. The university and its ...