Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Animals Are Using Rafts of Plastic Garbage to Colonize the Open Ocean
Coastal animals such as mollusks and crustaceans are making a home on the high seas using heaps of trash from humans, a new study has found.
Here's Where All Your Plastic Ends Up
We talked to the photographer who documents North Pacific albatross and their garbage-clogged insides.
Good job, humans, you killed this whale
Sperm whale that washed up dead in Spain had 64 pounds of plastic garbage in its body.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has grown to twice the size of Texas
It’s largely fishing gear, though plastic is accumulating at an exponential rate
Inside the monumental effort to rid the world’s oceans of plastic
The world dumps the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute.
These Plastic-Eating Machines Will Filter Our Junk From the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup revealed how their ocean-plastic-removal machine will actually work.
The Ocean Contains Less Food for You Than 50 Years Ago
October is National Seafood Month, but a new study published by the World Wildlife Fund suggests you probably shouldn’t celebrate with a seafood tower.
Nearly 300,000 Tons of Plastic is Floating in the World's Oceans
A first of its kind study says there's an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic floating on the surface of the oceans — just how much is in the water column or floats to the bottom remains unknown.
We're Looking for a Missing Plane and All We’ve Found Is Trash
A month after MH370 disappeared, trash is the only thing we've found—maybe we shouldn't ignore the symbolism there.