In remote waters off Kamchatka, researchers scanning the floor three miles below the surface found as many as 185 tiny plastic litter pieces per square foot. The disaster is largely invisible but ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The amount of plastic litter on beaches around the UK increased by almost a tenth last year, volunteer beach cleans have revealed. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said more than 15,000 ...

In Shaping Our Shores, the film I featured in last week's article on the shocking plastic pollution levels on Scotland's beaches, a litter picker, wading through a burn, pulls with a garden at a ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

Globally, 18 percent of all plastic is recycled. Europe manages 30 percent, China 25—the United States only 9. 6. Don’t litter. The Ocean Conservancy has run beach cleanups for 30 years.

This resource explores plastic waste and the problem it is causing the oceans. The film joins a group of children taking part in a litter-pick on their local beach and reveals just how much ...

MELAKA: Cigarette butts were the most common form of litter ... from the beach within two hours. "We managed to collect about 30kg of recyclable items including various types of plastic, paper ...

A Louis Vuitton bag was among the litter collected during a beach clean ... Some of the bagged up waste that was cleared from the beach ready to be collected from Cley (Image: Ben Smyth) There was no ...