Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

beer cans and old shoes — when she spotted a glass bottle poking out of a trash heap alongside a trail near Tampa. Flament-Smith initially worried that a bottle thrown into the ocean might ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

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 ...

We all know by now that the ocean is a mess, thanks to humans. Between melting ice caps, diminishing food sources, high mercury content in fish, the loss of coral reefs, and the giant trash heap ...