March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...
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Imagine the weight of a million midsize SUVs lined up from Maine to California. Now picture that much plastic spread across the Earth’s oceans. Roughly 170 trillion pieces of plastic are in our oceans ...
The Dutch nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup hauled almost 64,000 pounds of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after two and a half months of testing the latest iteration of its collection ...
A new report uncovered a disturbing truth. Even in America's most idyllic places, little pieces of plastic are gathering in droves, posing threats to humans and wildlife. Common Dreams broke down the ...
In the summer of 2021, researchers from the nonprofit 5 Gyres carried a crate filled with samples of plastic trash to a dock in Long Beach, California. Inside mesh bags were 22 different items (from ...
After nine consecutive years with at least one major hurricane landfall on the Gulf Coast, in 2025, we’ve told tropical cyclones to leave us alone and they have. There has been just one weak tropical ...