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 Waste is Ubiquitous Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the packaging of our food, the toys our children play with, and even in the clothes we wear. This omnipresence of plastic is no coincidence; ...

Volunteers here have an almost full-time job scooping up the corpses. kilograms of plastic have entered the ocean since you started reading They have tried to clean Midway up; the huge dump of ...

Tiny bits of plastic found in the ocean may be tied to a higher risk of disability for people who live in coastal areas with high levels, according to a preliminary study. The study looked at ...

Watch the full interview with Boyan Slat and see Ocean Cleanup System 03 in action in CNET's latest video about the mission to rid the world's oceans of plastic pollution. Happy Earth Day!

The first ever assessment of litter in Mediterranean's deepest place located in Greece's eastern Ionian Sea has detected huge ...

With the equivalent of about 625,000 garbage trucks of plastic entering the ocean each year, finding ways to degrade these compounds is critical. Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating ...

As these heartbreaking images reveal, plastic pollution can have a deadly impact on every inhabitant of our oceans. From the hermit crabs forced to live in toothpaste lids to the sperm whales ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...