Ocean Conservancy created a Wildlife Impact Calculator to help you understand the real benefits of your beach cleanups.

A free online calculator shows the number of seabirds, turtles and marine mammals you help protect by cleaning up plastic ...

Today is World Oceans Day, “a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future.” This year’s focus is ...

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Discover the urgent environmental problem of ocean plastic pollution in this insightful video. Starting with scientific ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

Measuring plastic particles carried on Cozumel’s sea breezes and ocean currents reveals how simple physics shapes the ...

Environmentalists face a hidden scourge in abandoned fishing nets that drift beneath the waves and blanket the ocean floor, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

Discover how Adidas and Parley for the Oceans are pioneering the fight against plastic pollution by transforming ocean waste ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...