Latest news and insights from ocean pollution & waste.
Most of us picture "breaking down" as disappearing. A banana peel rots, a paper bag pulps apart, and within weeks nature has reclaimed them. Plastic doesn't play by those rules. When a bottle or a fishing net ends up in…
A new study published in the journal One Earth has produced the first global index of macroplastic pollution by usage type, analysing data from 112 nations including 5,300 shoreline litter surveys and 355 peer-reviewed s…
A recent study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin has detected dangerous concentrations of pharmaceutical and personal care compounds in coastal waters along Djibouti's Gulf of Tadjourah, including ibuprofen at level…
The ocean is the planet's life-support system. It covers roughly 71% of Earth's surface, produces about half the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, and acts as the world's largest climate buffer, absorbing the…
The ocean is the ultimate destination for much of what human activity leaves behind. Waste that begins in a city street, a farm field, or a factory pipe often ends its journey in salt water, and the scale of that flow is…
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