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 ...

and an estimated 8 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste entered the ocean in 2010. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New ... and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Adidas makes over 400 million pairs of shoes every year. Manufacturing that many shoes requires a lot of resources. But constantly creating new ...

Plastic Problems” KTLA’s new ocean conservation series ‘Saving Our Seas’ dives into one of the largest and most worrisome ...