Community-led research from UC Santa Barbara’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents ,and eight ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution. Here's what he's doing about it.

Millions of tons of plastic in the ocean aren't floating in plain sight—they're invisible. Scientists have now confirmed that the most abundant form of plastic in the Atlantic is in the form of ...

Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations ...

“Nanoplastics make up the dominant fraction of marine plastic pollution,” Materić says. In the entire world’s oceans, it is estimated that there are around 3 million tonnes of floating ...

The health, resilience and productivity of marine and coastal ecosystems is increasingly affected by pollution, including land-based nutrient, pesticide and plastic pollution. WWF and our supporters ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the ...

Efforts to combat ocean plastic pollution focus on developing biodegradable fishing gear to replace conventional plastics, which persist for centuries and contribute to ghost fishing.

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone ...

A ship tows The Ocean Cleanup’s first buoyant trash-collecting device into the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay in 2018. (Lorin Eleni Gill / Associated Press) Sept. 12, 2024 3 AM PT ...

This includes lakes, rivers, and streams, as well as oceans, but for much of that pollution, the ocean is the final destination. “We’ve basically been dumping plastic in the ocean for decades ...