Unless it’s been incinerated, pretty much all the plastic ever produced is still ... until eventually the net sinks to the ocean floor where it is picked clean. Then it rises to the surface ...

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 ...

two vessels that trawl the surface with a U-shaped net—the vision has remained largely the same: to recover 90 percent of the plastic in the ocean by 2040. We go out there on a regular basis, so we ...

As a milestone in this expansion, Plastic Odyssey is proud to announce the creation of Plastic Odyssey Fund, a US-based ...

Nets and ropes alone accounted for more than ... The research team submerges plastic samples in the ocean. Plastic retrieved after six months underwater When they retrieved the plastics last ...

Ninety percent of the world’s coral is in danger of disappearing by 2050. But with more funding, research, and volunteers, ...

Indigenous rangers are "the eyes and ears for north Australia", keeping wildlife safe from ghost nets and coastlines free ...