Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution. Long viewed simply as a floating mass of waste, the patch is now found to ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

This Ocean Cleanup System Aims To Collect 50 Tons Of Plastic. But Then What? Area Of Plastic In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Three Times The Size Of France The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Eve ...

Discover how ocean plastic isn't the core problem we think it is. While plastic constitutes about 80 percent of marine pollution, much of it doesn’t originate from consumer trash or coastal areas. A ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

A new global study has ranked the endangered Hawaiian monk seal as the marine mammal most vulnerable to extinction from plastic pollution, due to its small population, high exposure, and sensitivity ...