Uncover the deep-sea secret of plastic-eating bacteria. Learn how these marine microbes use a unique PETase enzyme to digest ...

The photos could reveal new details about the visitor from another star system. A peculiar object discovered by the James ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in ...

Blacktip Reef Shark at Sealife Oberhausen, where teeth used in the study were collected. Credit: Max Baum. A leading cause of a declining pH value in the world’s oceans is human CO2 emission. As more ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- On a sunny beach along Monterey Bay, Stanford researcher Dr. Matt Savoca and his team are tracking a devastating ocean polluter: microplastics. They're hoping to follow the ...

An aircraft carrying War Secretary Pete Hegseth made an "unscheduled landing" Wednesday afternoon in the United Kingdom. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on social media that on the way ...

THEY GOT STRANDED. SO HOW WAS YOUR RIDE? WELL, NOT AS EXPECTED, OBVIOUSLY. SAM AND CURT ARE WET AND EMBARRASSED, BUT OTHERWISE OKAY. THEY’RE THE TWO GORDON COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WERE IN THIS SUV ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a microplastics bill that would have expanded a 2015 ban on microbeads in personal care products. Environmentalists criticized the governor for rejecting what ...