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 ...

and community members to combat water pollution.” The plan divides the watershed by land use types and develops possible management strategies for each area. Most of the land in the watershed is ...

to forge a legally binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution. “We were hoping this was the last meeting,” the California-based ocean conservation expert, who was part of the U.S ...

a known area where plastic accumulates and the more rapid ocean acidification at higher latitudes, such as the Southern Ocean. The team found that krill embryos exposed to nanoplastic pollution ...