To determine the most polluted rivers in the world, ... The Indus River dumps over 180,000 tons of plastic waste into the ocean annually — the second highest amount after the Yangtze River in ...

Sweden's government is taking action to help protect the Baltic Sea, one of the world's most polluted bodies of water. Two pieces of legislation passed in June that will help keep the Baltic a ...

Henderson Island's polluted beaches show that there is no escaping plastic pollution, Lavers said. More than 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year, and most is not recycled, according ...

If business continues as usual, the ocean will contain one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish by 2025, and by 2050, the oceans may have more plastics than fish, by weight. WWF is calling on ...

The full report ‘Around the plastic world in 455 days - a citizen science global transect quantifying microplastics in the oceans’ is available online here.

They were banned from most applications in the U.S. in the 70s. However, these compounds don't break down easily, part of what made them so useful to begin with.

Competitors enter the ocean at the beginning of the swim portion of the IRONMAN 70.3 Superfrog on September 16, 2018 in Imperial Beach, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images for IRONMAN) ...

OCEAN AVENUE — Santa Monica continues to have some of the most polluted beaches in California, with the Santa Monica Pier failing to meet clean water criteria nearly half the time, according to ...

Surfrider Foundation just released its list of the top 10 most bacteria-polluted beaches in America during 2023. ... (BWTF) which sampled water at 567 different sites across beaches, oceans, ...

It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles ... The company collects trash from oceans, rivers and coastlines and converts it into products such as bracelets, ...