Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

Explore the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution and its impact on marine life and human health. Find out how to help.

How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...

Imagine 400 million tonnes of plastic made every year. That’s enough to wrap the Earth’s coastline six times. Yet, 12 million tonnes of it ends up in our oceans every year. It’s like a huge party ...

Scientists are working to understand the effects of microplastics and stem the flow of these toxic pollutants into the world’s bodies of water. But polymer production has an equally harmful effect on ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — $2.8 million in grant funding is broken into two categories, with $1,949,500 million for watershed projects. Watershed projects are those that actually maintain the watersheds.

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...