Europe is building a virtual twin of the ocean to allow scientists, policymakers and citizens to test ideas, fight pollution ...

Ocean plastics pollution has become one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. This video maps where plastic ...

Ten years since its founding in 2013, The Ocean Cleanup project remains ambitious. Founder and CEO Boyan Slat says a recent $25 million donation to the effort, the largest single contribution to date, ...

A new study has some good news, but there’s a problem: Ocean pollution appears to be growing fast. By Delger Erdenesanaa There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists ...

Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines. Increasingly, researchers have been finding tiny microplastic fragments ...

Water covers about 71% of Earth, and most of the pollution in it comes from the remaining 29% of land we live on. NOAA states that “80% of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land,” and ...

One of the most abundant pelagic sharks in the world has been shown to ingest both plastic and non-plastic fibers, which ...

Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times climate and environment team, filling in for my colleague Sammy Roth. As the burning of fossil fuels and other human ...

A group of scientists analyzing global data collected over the past four decades have found a "rapid increase" in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to a research article published in the ...