When it comes to the ocean, not everyone fully understands its significance to human life, marine biodiversity, and the ...

At midnight today (9 April), the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached agreement on a ...

A new report by Oceana warns plastic foam has become an “ever-present part of modern life” and must be phased out at a local, ...

Documenting the garbage along New Jersey beaches helps state lawmakers make policy decisions on plastic pollution, says this ...

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

Around 100 billion plastic beverage containers are sold in the United States each year — much of which ends up in landfills and waterways, polluting the environment and endangering wildlife. Studies ...

Scientific studies on nine major waterways reveal an 'alarming' pollution by small particles. For the first time, a bacterium ...

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These commitments came at the Fifteenth Intergovernmental Session of UNESCO’s IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific ...

It's impossible to be in the dark about the scourge of microplastics, but new light has been shone on how they end up in the ...

The installation is expected to tour beaches in the region this summer to spread the message that these cheap boards are bad ...