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The submersible reaches the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

It was chilly; it was quiet; and "it was so very peaceful"

Planet Earth
Stranded sperm whale

Another Dead Whale Full of Plastic. This Time, in Italy.

By Kimberly Hickok published

The whale's cause of death is still under investigation, but a stomach full of plastic isn't a healthy thing.

Whales
Darrell Blatchley, director of D'Bone Collector Museum Inc., pulls plastic waste from the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale that washed ashore in Compostela Valley, in the Philippines.

Dead Whale Washes Ashore with Shocking 88 lbs. of Plastic in Its Stomach

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

His stomach "had the most plastic we have ever seen in a whale"

Whales
A harbor seal investigates a member of the golf ball recovery team.

Teen Diver Finds Huge Cache of Plastic Pollution — Thousands of Golf Balls Off California Coast

By Matthew Savoca published

With a marine scientist, the teen reveals how much golf courses are polluting nearby waters.

Planet Earth
This dead sperm whale was found washed up on a beach in southern Indonesia on Nov. 19, its stomach full of nearly 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of plastic trash.

Found, Inside Dead Sperm Whale: 100 Plastic Cups, 4 Plastic Bottles, 25 Plastic Bags, 2 Flip-Flops

By Kimberly Hickok published

A dead sperm whale had more than 100 plastic cups, plastic bags, flip flops and other pieces of plastic in its stomach when it was found rotting on a beach in Indonesia.

Whales
Plastic pollution has reached some of the ocean's top predators South American Fur Seals (<em>Arctocephalus australis</em>).

Invisible Stew of Plastic Pollution Found in Fur Seal Poop

By Stephanie Pappas published

First humans, now seals: Microplastics are in everyone's digestive tract.

Seals
Ocean Cleanup System 001

A Huge Noodle Could Leave the Ocean Cleaner — If It Works

By Kimberly Hickok published

Is the goal of the Ocean Cleanup as admirable as it sounds?

Rivers & Oceans
plastics kailua beach

Your Plastic Bags Are Releasing Greenhouse Gases

By Leslie Nemo published

Plastics aren't just messing up the environment by clogging the oceans and piling up in landfills.

Climate Change
A whopping 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic are afloat in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Quadrupled, Maybe Even 16-upled

By Laura Geggel published

Rivers & Oceans
Plastic picked from the landfill for recycling.

Humans Have Produced a Whopping 9 Billion Tons of Plastic

By Tracy Staedter published

Since large-scale manufacturing of plastics took off in the 1950s and until 2015, humans have produced approximately 9 billion tons of plastic.

Pollution
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