World Oceans Day is celebrated each year to remind us of the vital importance of the world’s seas and renew the call for an end to ocean pollution. Oceans cover an enormous 70 per cent of the world’s ...

Ocean pollution is widespread, worsening, and poses a clear and present danger to human health and wellbeing. But the extent of this danger has not been widely comprehended – until now.

In the entire world’s oceans, it is estimated that there are around 3 million tonnes of floating plastic pollution — excluding nanoplastics.

On Monday, a report by NBC News named cigarette butts as the single greatest source of ocean pollution — surpassing plastic straws. The filters in cigarettes are made of tiny plastic particles ...

Plastic pollution is just about everywhere in the modern world. From beaches to roadsides and even the furthest reaches of the ocean, this toxic material has done a huge amount of damage to the planet ...

Voluntary measures also completely ignore scrubber wash water that accounts for 95 per cent of the pollution coming out of cruise ships. Scrubber wash water is acidic, laden with carcinogens and ...

The Pollution Tracker study, partly funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, took sediment samples at four locations along the Victoria harbour over a three-year period, as well as at 50 other ...

In total, 300 women will take part, collecting garbage samples from the oceans. The data gathered will help better focus scientific research and future initiatives to prevent plastic pollution.

Joyce Majiski's next project is to recreate, to scale, an exact replica of a huge humpback whale, using only styrofoam and plastic diverted from landfills as a metaphor for what the world's ...