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Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the world's highest court governing oceans, has said that nations must take ...

The Ocean Cleanup employs advanced technologies to tackle plastic pollution, targeting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and ...

Our oceans have been experiencing a plastic crisis for decades. We have now reached a pivotal moment in ocean pollution, where the numbers are no longer abstract and time is running out to make an ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

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When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

In 1996 Captain Charles Moore, a citizen scientist and founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education Foundation, stumbled upon what came to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- a ...