A nightmare haunts our oceans. But an 18-year-old visionary dared to dream of its end. Boyan Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, ...
Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...
Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup ...
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(BPT) – The world’s oceans are a magical, beautiful ecosystem … and they also need help — urgently. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, by 2050, there will be more plastic by weight than fish ...
The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There’s a majestic underwater world to explore, too. But it’s impossible to surf or snorkel without running ...
New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. Every ...
There are likely hundreds of trillions of pieces of plastic floating around the world’s oceans - and one country has been named the worst polluter. Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth’s water ...
A persistent claim shared by high-profile sources such as the United Nations, (archived) (archived) World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (archived) says ...