The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are so small and lightweight they can be swept into the air, where they may be helping to heat ...

A new study published in Nature Climate Change found that colored microplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute ...

Whether it is good news or bad news for the environment, the world’s largest garbage dumps are not on land — they are in the ocean. Attempts have already been made to clean them up, but so far, none ...