Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.

Read More: Marine Fungi Could Eat Plastic Pollution, Helping to Clean Our Oceans and Beaches Ca. Electrothrix yaqonensis is able to help with reduction-oxidation reactions, especially over greater ...

They wind up in local waterways that connect to the ocean. Marine animals eat them, and that can pass plastic to larger ... Project for a Clean Ocean. READ MORE: Could bringing back 19th-century ...

The team focused on fungi collected from Hawaii's coastal waters. They tested and selectively bred the fungi to see if they could break down the ... of the fungi we collected from the ocean had some ...

The tariff wars started by President Trump are likely to speed up seabed mining of metals in the Pacific Ocean, which could endanger marine environments ... that’s made a diaper with plastic-eating ...

In doing so, it could help to balance ecosystems ... and remove these micro-plastics from the ocean. Collective action of humans minimizing their plastic expenditures combined with fungi being trained ...

We've seen fungi being used to create useful new materials for construction, fire-retardant building insulation, and even ...

The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea. In three years, the Initiative has already achieved 80% of it ...

actively improving plastic removal in the Pacific Ocean. It supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal No. 14 (Life Below Water) by increasing cleanup efficiency. It could be adapted ...

A global survey of the tiny particles reveals they are prevalent throughout the water column – even at the deepest depths – which could ... tonnes of plastic flowing into the ocean and the ...

But the gut isn’t home to bacteria alone — it also harbors a bustling community of fungi and other microorganisms that are ... gut fungus may do more than just coexist with us — it could help reverse ...