A Holly Springs teen’s startup turns recycled bottles into swimwear and removes a pound of ocean plastic for every sale.

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste ...

All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean plastic pollution is stored in ocean life, we used sea turtles as a case study. Sea turtles ingest plastic ...

As a researcher with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia studying marine plastic pollution, I spend my days documenting a ...

On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, ... research publications on ocean plastic debris have increased more than fivefold according to UNESCO.

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

Debris Free Oceans is on a mission to eradicate marine debris — particularly plastic and trash — from South Florida’s oceans and beaches.

It's time to get at the root of this ocean crisis.The Center has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating plastics as a pollutant and is working to stop plastic pollution at ...

The event, dubbed Move For Ocean, brought together SG Ghana employees, local community members, and environmental partner Plastic Punch Ghana, in support of global Sustainable Development Goals 6 ...

It's rubbish season in northern Australia, when tonnes of plastic and discarded fishing nets wash ashore in the Gulf of Carpentaria. But the future of funding for clean-up patrols is unclear.

On Friday, June 6, visitors and residents helped clean up Coney Island Beach, collecting plastic bottles, shoes, soccer balls ...

HIS obsession with photography was so consuming that it drove a young Leo Hendrik Baekeland beyond the darkroom and into the ...