The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

We've all seen the photos of attractive sea turtles sipping ocean cocktails through nose-straws, and the outlines of ocean bird bodies filled in with a colourful collage of bottle caps, but the true ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Researchers have been visiting locations in ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

CNN’s 5 Things PM brings you the stories you might have missed during your busy day.