They were a new geological phenomenon formed by the combination of natural rock-forming processes and plastic debris, particularly fishing nets and oceanic trash. This realization led Santos to an ...

Two new studies into how plastic debris is reaching sub-Antarctic islands are published in the journal Environment International. New findings include analyses of some of the longest continuous ...

The IFL Science portal reports that a conspiracy theory about a seemingly mysterious find in Antarctica is circulating ... that it is merely a natural rock formation emerging from the glacier ...

A scientist team aboard the Royal Navy icebreaker is uncovering the damage plastic waste is having on Antarctica. As part of efforts to preserve one of the world’s most unique and fragile ...

So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.