With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

One of these nonprofit organizations is The Ocean Cleanup, which has been developing technologies to stop the flow of plastic pollution into our oceans. Since 2013, the Netherlands-based team of ...

Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

The Ocean Cleanup, the nonprofit organization at the forefront of marine plastic removal, is expanding its mission beyond ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

SEE ALSO: This mobile game lets you 'clean up' plastic pollution from the ocean "What's happened on Henderson Island shows there's no escaping plastic pollution, even in the most distant parts of ...

Federal lawmakers are calling for Florida leaders to take swift action to control water pollution after a Tampa Bay Times ...

The explosion of SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7 in mid-January has raised concerns among scientists about atmospheric pollution. The upper stage, weighing 85 tons without fuel, detonated at 90 miles ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...