"We need to take a lesson." Nonprofit shares time-lapse clip of how it removed 140 tons of garbage from river: 'Really puts [it] into perspective' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite ...

A Canadian nonprofit is ensuring "ghost gear" won't sleep with the fishes through a first-of-its-kind recycling program for marine waste. The Ocean Legacy Foundation aims to tackle this common plastic ...

State Sen. Jesse Kiehl says he’s drafting legislation to address water pollution from cruise ships that use scrubbers to ...

Researchers from the University of Chittagong just uncovered a growing crisis in Chattogram, Bangladesh, and the numbers are alarming. Their study found that nearly 27% of the city's plastic goes ...

Scientists have measured the amount of nanoplastics in the open ocean for the first time and found they make up the vast majority of marine plastic pollution. Plastic debris in the ocean can be of ...

Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account ...