Around four billion minute fibres could be littering each square kilometre of some of the world’s deep seas, demonstrating that plastic debris is now creating cause for concern in some of th... Read more
A major new survey of the seafloor has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human litter. The litter was found thro... Read more
Tiny particles of waste plastic that are ingested by shoreline “eco-engineer” worms may be negatively affecting biodiversity, a study says. So-called microplastics may be able to... Read more
Could reduce the number of fish needed to test the toxicity of a range of chemicals A new way of testing the safety of natural and synthetic chemicals has been developed by scientists with f... Read more