Scientists have issued a dark warning after making a disturbing discovery in the depths of the ocean. An international team ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated ... who trucks the waste to recycling plants on the outskirts of Manila. Trucks full of plastic bottles pull into a recycling facility in Valenzuela, Philippines.

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

No Plastics in Nature The No Plastics in Nature Initiative seeks to address plastic pollution using three complementary strategies: securing a robust global plastics treaty, driving improvements in ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis ... Act and will keep pushing for plastic pollution to be treated as the hazardous waste that it is. We’ve sued ...