Description: To find out how destructive negligence and indifference are, it is enough to move between Hawaii and California and see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch! From wreckages of containers to ...

While we’re used to seeing lucky Aussies make a mass exodus to Europe during our winter months, this year a surprising find ...

A group of students at North Junior High School took a school-wide challenge to the next level by collecting thousands of ...

Listen to the remake of the 1960s protest song, Eve of Destruction, recorded by Daily Maverick's climate crisis section, Our Burning Planet.

French scientists believe that microplastics are now widespread in the Mediterranean sea, posing significant health, ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

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 ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Humans take more than 22,000 breaths a day and experts say the quality of the air we breathe is important. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports more than 90% of children breathe air so polluted ...