Saipan Environment Forum Hears Caution on Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup

Saipan environment forum hears caution on Pacific Garbage Patch cleanup

An expert says there is pushback from environmental groups when it comes to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “garbage patches” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics.

Microbial degradation of microplastics by enzymatic processes: a review

Microplastics contamination is becoming a major concern worldwide. More than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea animals have died due to plastic contaminat

The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an al…