For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

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 ...

“We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the oceans, lakes, and rivers.” Nations can enact bans on certain types of plastic, focusing on those that are the most ...

More from World Wide Waste A triangle pointing right which indicates this type of media can be played. The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that ...

Small pellets of plastic are washing up on the east coast of England following the fiery collision of two ships in the North ...

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 ...

We’re talking about microplastics – those tiny fragments that are quietly infiltrating every corner of our oceans. We’ve dumped billions of tons of plastic waste into our environment ...

While many terrestrial fungi have previously been found to degrade various types of plastic, the team of researchers from the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...