The world has one ocean and its health is critical ... Plastic waste alone kills up to one million sea birds, a hundred thousand sea mammals and countless fish each year. An estimated 80 per ...

The project's goal is to map all objects ... penetrate the ocean surface, they play a crucial role in the project. These instruments can detect slight variations in sea level around large ...

The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where ... Still, the story isn’t all bad. Some seas have seen reduced human impact—in parts of the North Atlantic ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is ...