Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this episode of Saving Our Seas, we dive into a compounding catastrophe, along the California coastline, and all across ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

Eight billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since 1950. Much of it lies unrecycled in dumps, in the ocean or on beaches. (Photo ... from all over the world to change that fate and protect ...

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 ...

Our oceans are bearing the brunt of plastic pollution, with at least 14 million tons of plastic entering the ocean every year. This staggering amount creates massive pollution hotspots ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New ... and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the ...

If we don't stop, the ocean could be drastically changed within our lifetimes. We asked the experts: unless we change our ways, what will the ocean look like in 50 years? Plastic pollution on ...

What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and talks to experts to find out how ...