A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

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The Latest. There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists previously thought, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.. The ...

The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles. Now we can track them with satellites. The first step to understanding how microplastics are affecting the ocean is to learn how much—and where ...

Still, an estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean every year, according to Oceana. “That is roughly equivalent to dumping two garbage trucks full of plastic into the ocean every ...

Others say the ocean isn’t that full of plastic, and there are more animals above ground, so isn’t it better to place plastic where humans aren’t?

An estimated 33 billion pounds of plastic waste enter the oceans each year, roughly equivalent to two garbage trucks-full dumped in every minute, according to Oceana. It takes centuries to break down.

It was the summer of 2017 when he and fellow surfer Andrew Cooper first arrived to the beaches of Bali, Indonesia expecting to find paradise and instead found an ocean full of plastic.

On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to ...