He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of a good intention—the intention to end ocean plastic pollution. In that way it’s less like the Paris ...

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence ... and other staples of its diet. As the oceans suffer from overfishing, pollution, and the mounting impacts of climate ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... protect it from potential threats, such as ocean acidification and pollution. When it needs protecting, that ...

The decline is largely because of overfishing, but pollution and waters warmed ... helped fund this article. The National Geographic Society and Sky Ocean Ventures have launched the Ocean Plastic ...

During that time, he says, “our oceans have changed enormously ... A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. For much of the year, the ocean at Nazaré, a fishing village on Portugal’s coast, is placid. But in the winter, certain storms funnel swells ...

The sea and ocean are the most mysterious places on ... upon deep beneath the surface of the water. Recently, the National Geographic Pristine Seas team came across an incredible discovery in ...