Microplastics are impairing the oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide, thereby potentially contributing to climate change, according to a recent study.

The research, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials: Plastics, reviewed 89 studies published from 2010 to 2025.

Microplastics are interfering with the ocean’s role in regulating Earth’s temperature, researchers warn. View on euronews ...

Aboard an aluminum skiff or one of her five kayaks, fourth-generation shrimper and fisherwoman Diane Wilson often plies the ...

Scientists claim their invention, based on the way anchovies and mackerel feed, removes nearly all microplastics from laundry ...

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Microplastics are damaging oceans' ability to absorb CO2, disrupting the natural process of 'biological carbon pumping.' This ...

Microplastics are disrupting the world’s oceans’ ability to absorb and store CO2 as the ubiquitous fragments have found their way into the “biological carbon pump”, according to a recent academic ...

Researchers discovered that microplastics accumulate in the middle of tube-like structures winding around circular currents.

Volunteers, along with Southern Water's Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works, worked to remove the beads as quickly and ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles around the width of a human hair to the size of a pencil eraser and they are in Lake Erie.

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...