The Philippines is believed to be the source of more than a third (36.4 percent) of all plastic waste in the ocean followed by India (12.9 percent), Malaysia (7.5 percent), China (7.2 percent) and ...

To ascertain the quantity of plastic in Earth's oceans, the researchers analyzed a wealth of data, such as "different marine reservoirs, including coastlines, the ocean surface and the deep ocean ...

F ar beyond the shore, oceans are dominated by a handful of massive gyres, circular currents that continuously suck debris into their centers. In addition to amassing pieces of floating wood and ...

But if we are to halt the flow of plastic into our oceans in the near future, we must focus our actions on the polluting rivers that carry most of it there. In 2011, when I was 16, ...

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 depths, from 200 m to as deep as 11,000 m contains the remainder of predicted plastic mass (54 per cent). Although inland and coastal seas cover much less surface area than oceans (11 per ...

Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...

The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

While most plastic particles in the ocean are very small, the total mass of these microplastics -- defined as less than five millimetres (0.2 inches) -- is relatively low.

These plastic particles, measuring less than 5 millimeters, enter our oceans through human waste and penetrate the food chain.According to an Ifremer study, around 24,400 billion microplastics are ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we're dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it's still a ...

Trying to solve the world's ocean plastic pollution problem has been a "long and painful journey" for Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat. The 28-year-old founder of non-profit environmental ...