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

A green sea turtle, now nicknamed "Lucky Duck," was rescued and brought to the N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island with shark attack injuries and a stomach full of plastic.

Never-before-seen footage captured as 6.5 tonnes of pollution, almost all plastic, removed from just 8 km of remote coastline in Northern AustraliaSea ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Visitors of the 'grossest' beaches have complained of everything from dog poo to 'serviettes covered in faeces'.

Graham Matthews, plastic waste expert at BusinessWaste.co.uk said: “Litter on the UK’s beaches turns our natural beauty spots ...

On the preschool playground, the large plastic play structure that was once its ... “Miss Raegan, we get a big crane and we go into the ocean and we scoop it all out, and then the animals will be OK.” ...

Rather, we have microplastics, and a sea rife top to bottom with them, as we’ve just learned from a study funded by and published in conjunction with the U.S. National Science Foundation. In a sense, ...

Scientists estimated that a green sea turtle could contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic, equivalent to approximately 10 ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...