While China and the US are the world’s largest plastic producers, as well as the countries with the largest emissions of ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimeter-sized plastic fragments are increasing much ...

Research conducted over seven years has shown that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is accumulating more plastic waste from ...

With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...

swirling zone where currents trap floating plastic, creating debris fields spanning hundreds to thousands of kilometres. Although high plastic concentration points are scattered across the ocean ...

This exponential increase poses a significant threat to the local ecosystem and potentially the global carbon cycle.

Slat says those early failures helped the nonprofit land on its current, more successful formula. It places contraptions that ...