Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water pumps get clogged with debris, and boats collide with bags of trash. Until ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have ...

On a windy Galveston beach, Joanie Steinhaus kneels in the sand, carefully examining the wrack line where organic debris ...

A project transforming ocean plastic waste into eco-bricks for infrastructure development in island communities has won the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) Malaysia Island Innovation ...

KNOWN for its fresh seafood and stilt houses, Kampung Sim-Sim in Sandakan should be a postcard-perfect coastal village.

Plastic waste and the challenge of getting rid of it have become major global issues. On top of that, there's the ongoing ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly, and we ...

Henderson Island has no inhabitants. The nearest major population center is more than 3,100 miles away. Yet the desolate Pacific island is one of the densest hubs of plastic pollution on the planet.

Around the world, plastics find their way into farm fields. Climate change makes agricultural plastic, already a necessity ...

Women seaweed farmers in Kikungwi, Unguja, Zanzibar, are struggling with the growing challenges of climate change and plastic ...