Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every year. Tiny ...

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

"Fishing gear remains in situ for a long time and in practice turns the ocean into a plastic landfill site ... there is no significant difference in catch efficiency when nylon is used compared ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

“We expect to find plastics at the bottom of the ocean, and at the top of the ocean. But not everywhere,” says Aron Stubbins at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. They also found that ...

From 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. Microplastics – ranging from 1 micron to 5 ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Many are aware of the dire challenges with plastic waste polluting the ocean, but new research shows it may harm wildlife in ...

The world's largest retailer is partially responsible for a pandemic-inspired surge in ocean plastic. A new report tries to estimate how much. Fishermen in Java don't catch many fish anymore ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Researchers now estimate that roughly 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the world’s oceans each year, including everything from ...

We're on Buzzards Bay MA geared up for catching sea bass. We're running the flexi jig (the jig where the hook flexes down to ...