All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.

The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication ...

The information on trash collected in the stormwater drains will be used ... Couple from across Lake Michigan meet on the SS Badger car ferry and now have a family Outside of water pollution, there ...

What began as a class project at Cal State San Bernardino has evolved into a meaningful environmental initiative after a ...

A new floating barrier installed Friday aims to reduce garbage in the Anacostia River. A Tuffboom works by floating on the ...

This traveling exhibit features nine larger-than-life sculptures of animals made from trash and debris washed up from the ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first ... Large pieces of debris, such as fishing nets, and their disastrous effects on marine life, are the most visible ...

One of the most damaging types of marine plastic pollution is abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear – commonly called “ghost gear.” Ghost gear is the most deadly form of marine plastic debris.