September 19th, 2026 is International Coastal Cleanup Day - we explain why plastics in oceans is a problem and what you can ...

Ocean Conservancy says last year’s cleanup collected 13.9m pieces of rubbish from beaches and rivers worldwide ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature estimates that the North Atlantic Ocean alone contains ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific evidence, we see how microplastics permeate every sample of beach sand across ...

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

As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal, ...

Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They’re particularly abundant in the aquatic environment, and ...

Maddie Kaufman, Debris Free Oceans’ program director, holds up trash she recovered by the Nixon Beach sandbar off Key Biscayne. Working with the Aspen Institute, the city of Miami Beach and Deco ...

Plastics and microplastics in the marine environment are one of the great cause célèbre of our era. Here’s what we know and don’t know. Drink containers end up in the ocean at a truly alarming rate.

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 ...