Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land,” and ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

The world's oceans and waterways are littered with millions of tons of plastic pollution – but scientists in a study released Thursday say we should think twice before cleaning them up. In fact, the ...

Discover the alarming global crisis of plastic pollution and how it affects our oceans and rivers. This video explores the ...

Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

Try to imagine the number 170,000,000,000,000—that’s 170 trillion. Calculated into seconds, that figure is equal to more than 5 million years. Turned into dollar bills stacked on top of each other, it ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

A new chapter has unfolded in the fight against ocean pollution as Hong Kong‘s Clearbot takes a significant leap forward. The marine tech start-up is rolling out a fleet of advanced solar-powered ...