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; ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...

Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet ... Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking them for jellyfish Seabirds are found with their stomachs full of plastic items ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...