Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics.View on euronews ...

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Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently discovered that many species of fungi isolated from Hawai‘i’s ...

The fact that one can do so anyway in a setting of the highest stakes, while stating truthfully that the work originated in a ...

Paper straws are “out” under the Trump administration, as he sucked the air out of the push for a more eco-friendly drink ...

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

As the flagship for Plastic Odyssey's mission in the U.S., this new Nonprofit entity is dedicated to tackling ocean plastic ...

A decade ago, researchers were just realizing that plastic accumulating in oceans across the globe – including in the Pacific Ocean garbage patch – was breaking apart, posing a threat to fin ...