NABU, politicians and businesses work together to find solutions   The problem of plastic waste in the oceans is massive. Every year, more ...

Since April 16th, the Greenpeace ship Beluga II has been underway on a new journey to publicise the growing threat of plastic trash and microplastic...

Tourist crowds intensify plastic problemRecord volumes of microplastics were detected in the Mediterranean, as revealed by a recent WWF report publish...

Film premiere of "Blue" should shake the world Since 2009, the 8th of June has been celebrated annually as the World Oceans Day by the United Natio...

Progress and gaps in the EU directive on disposable plasticThe European Commission has issued a directive to reduce environmental damage caused by cer...

The plastic particles come from the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean and from fishing vesselsResearchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz ...

Protest against plastic in the sea on Sylt with gigantic beach artWith a 40-meter “sand painted” whale, the German Environmental Aid (Deutsche Umw...

Plastics transports pathogensAn international team of scientists has found that contact with plastic waste greatly increases the likelihood of coral d...

IUCN study highlights major causes of plastic pollution Small plastic particles washed out of synthetic clothing and tyres may constitute as much as...

Scientists from the Kyoto Institute of Technology have discovered a bacteria that can break down the widely used plastic material polyethylene terepht...

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has shown that for the first time, plastic waste h...

Delegates to discuss solutions for marine waste, overfishing and habitat destruction In New York, The Ocean Conference, an inaugural UN summit on m...

Remote places no longer untouched by trashGreenpeace activists have picked up an assortment of oceanic trash that have washed up on the beaches of the...

More than one ton of fishing nets have been recovered near Sylt in the North Sea by divers from Ghost Fishing Foundation during a ten-day clean-up ope...

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once said, "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean" Perhaps, if ...

GEOMAR Open House in Kiel on 12 July 2015How dangerous is plastic waste in the ocean? How much World War II munitions is there still left in the sea?...