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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

According to a new study from the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa, plastics are becoming the most prevalent form of pollution in the ... to recycle and remove plastic from nature. Very few people ...

Dr. Jim Palardy, Project Director for Pew's Preventing Ocean Plastics project, is set to present the latest efforts to tackle ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean. Researchers ... even larger sources of marine pollution. The scientists are ...

With over 400 million tons of plastic produced annually — most of it non-recyclable — solutions require systemic transformation driven by bold leadership, private-sector innovation and dynamic ...

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 ...