Around 8 million tons of plastic waste find their way into the oceans each year. This mass of waste is equivalent to a garbage truck dumping its load into the ocean every minute. The impact on ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

That won’t bring about change overnight, but facts are stubborn things and they don ... and that the currently unrestrained accumulation of plastic waste will slow. We now have an Ocean Treaty, and we ...

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Fighting plastic pollution with global awareness Plastic in our oceans is a huge issue. Who can ignore the garbage patch that is twice the size of Texas, currently floating around in the Pacific ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

Purging our world of microplastics requires change at the government level. But until that happens, here are some things ...

If The Deep: Plastic Ocean SOS and Blue Planet have inspired you to help out our oceans, this is the page for you! Check out our top tips below for some easy ways you can get involved with ocean ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...