This episode visualizes the global crisis of ocean plastic pollution through detailed mapping and satellite data. We trace how plastics travel from rivers and coastlines into vast gyres, forming ...

Kia has renewed its electric vehicle (EV) fleet supplied to The Ocean Cleanup, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to ...

Rather than a dense, walkable mass, the patch is a vast region with elevated plastic concentrations.

An estimated 171 trillion pieces of plastic are lurking in the world’s oceans, and plastic production is expected to triple by 2060 if no changes are made. This growth could result in a significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic waste accumulaties along the Coastal Strip at Panama City Bay, in Panama City, Panama, on August 5. The country has one of ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...

In a world first, a Charles Sturt University researcher and her team have found direct evidence of wild seabirds that ingest ...

Aug. 11 (UPI) --Bottles more than 20 years old -- encrusted with marine organisms and worn from long exposure to the sea -- were among the debris collected by the "Científicos de la Basura, or Trash ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...