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 ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where it’s feeling the most impact from human ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “We know enough to act to reduce plastic pollution from entering the oceans, lakes, and rivers.” ...

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 ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ocean, if they should end up there. You can’t throw ...

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 ...

National Geographic has retired its Seafood Decision ... True sustainable operations minimize environmental impacts such as pollution, disease, and other damage to coastal ecosystems on which ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you licked one of these “treats,” you’d encounter cigarette butts, oil, oozing trash, and a whole lot of ...