Discover the escalating crisis of ocean plastic pollution and how The Ocean Cleanup is tackling this environmental issue.

Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats facing our oceans today. Each year, over 8 million tons of plastic—ranging ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

How did a large crab end up trapped inside a plastic bottle with an opening smaller than its body? Hiroshima University ...

An estimated 171 trillion pieces of plastic are lurking in the world’s oceans, and plastic production is expected to triple by 2060 if no changes are made. This growth could result in a significant ...

As plastic pollution continues to choke oceans and waterways, a global movement is challenging people to be part of the ...

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early ...

The UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meeting in Geneva concluded on Friday with no results. Now, Ocean Alliance Conservation Members step in with a way forward on eliminating plastic ...

More than 40 million depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. Yet plastic pollution in the lake water isn’t regulated, ...

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 ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...