And yet what effect do fragments of plastic have on ecosystems "on dry land"? This question is the ... In fact, terrestrial microplastic pollution is much higher than marine microplastic pollution ...

Ahead of the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, the research schooner Tara docked in Marseille for a day dedicated to tackling plastic pollution in the oceans.

Pollution, in its various forms, impacts the air, water and soil and has become a major driver of climate change and global warming.

Plastics revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices, made space travel possible, lightened cars and jets—saving fuel and pollution ... flows from land. Trash is also carried to sea ...