The deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea is littered with literal trash, starkly highlighting how human activity is ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

This might just be the intervention we desperately need. Company launches fleet of drones to take on an urgent problem ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly and we have all seen pictures and videos of marine life ...

found in oceans and seas. They come from broken-down plastic trash or products like face scrubs, fishing nets and food wrappers or take-out containers. "The environment can play a crucial role in ...

In fact, we don’t really know how much impact plastic bags have on marine life. As the Ocean Conservancy itself admits, “the ...

A massive marine recovery effort reveals the deeper human and economic cost of plastic pollution and what might be possibl ...

Now the same team, along with their colleagues, have found signs of dementia-like brain damage, kidney and liver dysfunction, ...

“Garbage,” she says ... there are roughly 21,000 pieces of plastic in the oceans for every person on the planet; a total that will, by 2050, exceed the weight of all the world’s fish ...

Along the way, he discovered a multibillion dollar trash trade run by shady waste brokers, and a global industry powered by slimy spoons, crinkled plastic bags, and all the other stuff we throw away.