Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

A new study has uncovered the Levant Basin as one of the world's most concentrated graveyards for plastic packaging and the ...

In fact, Easter Island receives around 50 times more plastic and microplastics than the coasts of mainland Chile.

Students and staff from the University of Bergen, together with long-standing partners, cleaned “Plastic Island” Lisle Lyngøy during this year’s plastic cleanup campaign. The cleanup ...

A few of us at Connecticut Sea Grant decided to try anyway for a week last month, as part of the international Plastic-Free July initiative.

A plastic island twice the size of Texas is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Ecopsychology becomes an important new ethical movement for increasing social self-consciousness.

Long Island Environment Only in Newsday How plastic particles invading Long Island Sound can wind up in your body Microplastics are polluting Long Island Sound and waterways around the world.

Neal Haddaway's photographs show how flesh-footed shearwater chicks on a beautiful island in the Tasman Sea are in danger from mounting marine plastic pollution ...

The Mediterranean is thought to be the most polluted sea on Earth. The equivalent of 34,000 plastic bottles are dumped into ...

What happens to plastic straws? More than 390 million plastic straws are used every day in the U.S., most for 30 minutes or less, according to advocacy group Turtle Island Restoration Network.

Discover the Washed Ashore art exhibit on Galveston Island. Explore impactful sculptures and learn about the fight against plastic pollution. Admission is free.