Vote for a strong global treaty on plastic pollution Plastic pollution is suffocating our rivers and ocean, killing wildlife and contaminating our food, air and water. Without immediate action, ...

fairly precisemap of the extent of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea, again thanks to the study of satellite images taken over the sea. A total of 300,000 images were examined ...

Plastic pollution poses significant and urgent global challenges, impacting ecosystems, human health, and economies. With 6mn ...

(Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDER GILLENEA/AFP via Getty Images) When people tend to think of plastic pollution and the oceans, they usually think of discarded soda ...

So where does the oceans' plastic waste come from? In the form of bottles, tyres, packaging and piping, millions of tonnes of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's waterways, often ...

Using artificial intelligence to process drone images is allowing researchers to tackle plastic pollution in the ocean in new ways. Oceanographers and computer scientists in Japan are spearheading ...