Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

One of the most abundant pelagic sharks in the world has been shown to ingest both plastic and non-plastic fibers, which ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo Story by Angela Dewan, CNN Published April ...

Removing the plastic now helps to stop it from degrading and shedding additional microplastics into the ocean, which can enter the food chain and eventually end up in the human body.

All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too Researchers worry that microplastics may be messing with an important carbon sequestration process ...

A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than ...

“The facts are clear: the health of our oceans and all of the life in them, directly impacts the health of the entire planet. This is why the research that we’re doing, right here in Wilmington, NC is ...

The first step is to prevent more plastic from reaching the sea in the first place.