As part of my research I recently spoke to the movie’s producer ... behaviour concerning plastic pollution. Lesley Henderson: You’ve always been interested in the ocean through your work ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we're dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it's still a ...

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that ...

This colossal debris vortex stretching from California to Japan has become the poster child for the planet's plastic pollution crisis. Yet, amid this dire scenario, a project called The Ocean ...

The world produces around 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Every day, 2,000 truckloads of it is dumped into the ocean, rivers and lakes. A team of women haul in fishing nets on ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

There’s a lot of plastic in the ocean, but understanding exactly how much isn’t easy. There’s a lot of ocean out there and much of the waste is hidden from view. Despite what you may have ...

"It's like a vacuum cleaner for the river," Slat said. The Ocean Cleanup is on a mission to collect 90% of floating plastic pollution, including cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch ...

A recently published study by an international consortium of researchers details a marine fungus called Parengyodontium album which lives on plastic litter in the ocean. The fungus is capable of ...