Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces. At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities ... Global warming is causing alterations in ocean chemistry and many oceanic processes, and it is threatening many ...

George Leonard is the chief scientist for the Ocean Conservancy ... Leonard: I think straws are a bit of a poster child here for the bigger question of society's kind of over-reliance on single ...