THERE’S so much plastic in our oceans – is there even any point in trying to do something about it? Trump’s continued insistence on ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

The technology could eventually have a global impact. Scientists build ultra-intelligent robot to deal with growing crisis ...

Artists transform marine debris into art, educating national park visitors in the process.

Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Grandly christened the Plastic Odyssey, this 40-metre long “floating laboratory” is a three-and-half year expedition that set ...

A Cairns leader has called for a new caretaker at Double Island after teens were accused of smashing up and stealing from the old resort off the coast of Palm Cove. It’s understood vandals have ...

According to the study, the calculated litter concentration is the second highest known to date in the deep ocean (deeper than 2,000 meters ... of visitors every summer are drowning in trash and ...

"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe ...

"I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now," he said. "I think it's called Puerto Rico." The backlash was so severe that at ...