It's rubbish season in northern Australia, when tonnes of plastic and discarded fishing nets wash ashore in the Gulf of Carpentaria. But the future of funding for clean-up patrols is unclear.

The Ocean Cleanup, the international non-profit with the mission to rid the world’s oceans of plastic, has announced, at the ...

Plastic straws are one of the top contributors of plastic pollution in the oceans. With just 9% of straws capable of being ...