Reasons to be Cheerful reports on autonomous plastic-eating robots in cities worldwide led by The Ocean Cleanup which aims to ...

By Bobby Bascomb From the seafloor to turtle stomachs, scientists are finding plastic everywhere they look for it. Now, ...

Humans produce close to 400 million metric tons of plastic every year, with several million tons entering the ocean. But ...

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

By Stephen Beech The very deepest depths of the ocean have become a dumping ground for human litter, reveals new research. Food wrappers, plastic cups and even a rubber boot were found thousands of ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

Halting new marine plastic inputs by 2050 is the core objective of the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which was shared and endorsed ...

The world’s oceans are turning into hellish plastic-filled soups, and organisms large, small, and even way down deep are finding themselves inundated with pollution. But in the game of life, ...

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has reached "unprecedented levels" over the past 15 years, a new study has found, calling for a legally binding international treaty to stop the harmful waste.

The rate of plastic entering the oceans could accelerate 2.6 times by 2040 if left unchecked, say researchers. The first study describing the discovery of marine plastic debris was published in the ...

The post Drowning in Plastic: How Ocean Debris Choke Wildlife and What You Can Do About It appeared first on A-Z Animals. September 19th, 2026, is International Coastal Cleanup Day. Millions of ...