A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists ...

Linda Nordling is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. I’m the founder and chief executive of The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, that ...

The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles that if gathered would weigh around 2.3 million tons, according to a new study. A team of ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ends up on the sea floor. New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the ...

Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

We’ve all seen them. Images of countless turtles, whales, dolphins, sharks, and seals, dead and entangled in abandoned fish nets. The ocean is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for its ...

A new report has been released by Germany-based ocean plastic recovery startup CleanHub that highlights ocean plastic pollution this year, as well as a look into its complex origins and what the ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land,” and ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they're not the biggest ...