W hen most people think of ocean plastic pollution, they think of what's visible—bottles washing up on shore, and grocery bags floating in the water. Far more insidious is the e ...

In those dark corners of the ocean, floating microplastics look almost ... to dramatically reduce the world's growing pile of plastic pollution. "What you're seeing is the fastest moving global ...

Join the conversation in our Facebook group. Among the five trillion bits of plastic floating around the ocean are weird curlicues like these—shavings from various fabrication or drilling processes.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags ... across the United States to turn fracked gas into plastic. This means more ...

The Ocean Cleanup project’s goal is to remove half of the plastic pollution by 2027 using floating barriers anchored to the seabed. A similar patch of floating plastic debris is found in the ...

WWF/ Greg Armfield Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere on our planet, not just on beaches and floating in the ocean. Plastics have been found in the air, soil and water, in our food and even ...

4 AIR-INK can turn air pollution into ink ... 6 This "Ocean Cleanup" machine has a giant floating pipe to capture plastic. The pipe moves with the waves and has floating anchors.

A considerable amount of micro-plastic is released ... due to shipping and fishing pollution Record levels of micro-plastics have been found trapped inside sea ice floating in the Arctic.

The product of those efforts - a floating, U-shaped device that traps ... in the 1,000 rivers worldwide that send the most plastic pollution into the ocean.

This year will be a year with plenty of opportunities to make important progress on several climate-related issues, from plastic pollution to financing the shift to a cleaner global economy.