About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

The photos “give science a visual voice ... Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling ...

As these heartbreaking images reveal, plastic pollution can have a deadly impact on every inhabitant of our oceans. From the hermit crabs forced to live in toothpaste lids to the sperm whales ...

Banning plastic grocery bags ... risks increasing the use of alternatives that end up doing even more environmental damage, including to ocean and marine life.” | Opinion ...

There are many ways to reduce plastic, and although it’s hard, it’s not impossible — that is plainly an excuse. We have to do ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

While we’ve all seen heartbreaking photos of beaches strewn with water ... Research paper While this foam won’t single-handedly solve our ocean plastic crisis, it represents a promising ...

Fighting plastic pollution with global awareness Plastic in our oceans is a huge issue. Who can ignore the garbage patch that is twice the size of Texas, currently floating around in the Pacific ...

Using artificial intelligence to process drone images is allowing researchers to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean in new ways. Oceanographers and computer scientists in Japan are spearheading ...