Meet the guy swimming through ...

Jul 15, 2019 by

Ben Lecomte is swimming through tons of plastic. Pieces of it have gotten stuck to his face. He’s passed abandoned fishing nets that tangle and kill wildlife. He’s held pieces of broken storage crates blooming with algae and barnacles. And he wants us to see it all — so we know what we’ve done to the planet.

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Watch out, Great Pacific Garba...

Jun 28, 2019 by

It’s try, try again for the Ocean Cleanup, an ambitious project designed to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Synchro swimmers perform in a ...

Mar 29, 2019 by

Two young synchronized swimmers in Britain have made a splash with a recent performance. Kate Shortman (17) and Isabelle Thorpe (18) of Bristol attempted their World Championship synchro routine in a swimming pool full of floating plastic waste.

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Orca ‘apocalypse’:...

Sep 27, 2018 by

Banned PCB chemicals are still severely harming the animals…

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Incredible Infographic Shows H...

Dec 18, 2015 by

[Translate] Environment From plastic trash and discarded fishing gear to oil spills and pesticide runoff, human beings have treated...

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DUTCH TEEN’S OCEAN-CLEAN...

Jun 5, 2015 by

[Translate] The Ocean Cleanup By Liz Core GRIST Don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Netherlands has an unstoppable deluge of unusual...

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Oceans in Crisis: One Woman Wi...

Apr 11, 2015 by

[Translate]   By Dahr Jamail, Truthout (Photo: Sonya Baumstein) Sonya Baumstein has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, kayaked from...

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