The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution.

At just 16 years old, Boyan Slat began working on what many saw as an unrealistic idea: a system that could remove most of the world’s floating ocean plastic. Within a few years, that school project ...