Plastic waste travels across seas, sinks below waves, changes color, breaks into tiny pieces, and mixes with algae. Some pieces float on the surface, while others drift deep underwater. Tracking such ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor advances space technology to track ocean debris by applying imaging spectroscopy to identify material specific spectral signatures from orbit. Although EMIT was launched in 2022 to ...

Gerard Dooly works for the University of Limerick, Ireland. He receives funding under the BLUEPOINT project (EAPA_0035/2022), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg ...

Earnings announcements are one of the few scheduled events that consistently move markets. Prices react not just to the reported numbers, but to how those numbers compare with expectations. A small ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these potentially toxic particles are far more abundant than previously thought. Over ...

Marine plastic pollution is a pressing environmental threat, making reliable automation for underwater debris detection essential. However, vision systems trained on one dataset often degrade on new ...

Abstract: Plastic pollution in aquatic environments is a pressing environmental issue, adversely impacting ecosystems, economies, and public health. Effective detection of macroplastic debris (plastic ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Underwater waste detection with YOLOv8 Underwater image enhancement using Dark Channel Prior Water quality classification with XGBoost Aquatic habitat assessment ...

Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an ...