You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Straws might seem insignificant, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade ...

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 ...

Ropes and fishing gear used in the fisheries and aquaculture industries are a major source of microplastics in the ocean and littering along the ...