As a big-wave surfer, the Brazilian adrenaline junkie set records at the highest surf break on Earth. She’s still committed ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

and all manner of other objects littering shorelines and bobbing in oceans. And then there’s the plastic waste we can’t see: microplastics, whittled by sun, wind, and waves into bits so small ...

A 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation claimed that by 2050 there would be 850 tons of plastic in the oceans and ...

These plastic particles, measuring less than 5 millimeters, enter our oceans through human waste ... Over time, wind, waves, sunlight and microorganisms break down larger plastic waste into ...

For the last 12 years a company called Bureo has been working with local fisherman to remove dangerous nets from the ocean.

like here at an island in the Pacific Ocean called Henderson Island. Thousands of bits of rubbish wash up here every day. Some of the plastic will sink under the waves where sea creatures can ...

George Leonard is the chief scientist for the Ocean Conservancy ... into smaller and smaller bits of plastic as a result of being tossed around by the waves and then by the fact that sunlight ...

Much of the plastic that does not end up in landfill or go through other waste management pathways (such as recycling or incineration) is thought to end up in the ocean. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million ...