A23a is currently the largest iceberg in the world, with a surface area of about 1,200 square miles. Since breaking off ...

Even more trash is suspected to be littering the ocean floor in these areas. Scientists estimate that 11-million metric tons of plastics enter the world’s oceans annually, the equivalent of ...

As marine litter (ML) tends to be overwhelmingly composed ... As every day tons more plastics make their way into the oceans, this provides us with the means to at least keep track of the scope ...

It's a controversial and thought-provoking finding amid efforts to clean up trash littering the world's oceans. That includes cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an infamous collection of ...

The vast majority—79 percent—is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter. Meaning: at some point, much of it ends up in the oceans, the final sink.

although we are still far from achieving a great social echo in terms of seabed litter”, Canals notes. Unlike other popular places, such as beaches or the coastline, “the ocean floor is still ...

By mapping the flow and fate of plastic waste in the oceans, the team found that at a minimum there must be a 32% reduction in plastic littering by 2035 to prevent further marine damage.