World Oceans Day

To stop plastic waste from entering the ocean, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences will assess the extent and source of marine litter along India's coastline ...

Be It Turtles Or Elephants, 5 heart-wrenching pictures that summarise why this World Oceans Day we need to resolve to beat plastic pollution ...

According to United Nations there will be more plastic in the world's oceans by 2050 than fish ...

Top things to know about World Oceans Day and what is choking the oceans. The need of the hour is to check indiscriminate dumping of plastic into the oceans ...

On World Oceans Day, Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a picturesque sand art with a message - 'Save Our Oceans' and 'Stop Plastic Pollution' ...

Actor and United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India, Dia Mirza, appealed everyone to #BeatPlasticPollution on World Oceans Day ...

In an ambitious move to make India free from its waste woes, the government launched a massive waste management campaign in 4000 cities across the country on June 5, the World Environment Day. The main motive behind this massive campaign by the government is to implement the practice of waste segregation at source across cities. And on June 8, the World celebrated Oceans Day to highlight the challenge faced by oceans due to indiscriminate dumping of waste, especially plastic waste. ...

Businessman and philanthropist Richard Branson presented a petition to the UN General Assembly, urging governments to protect at least 30 per cent oceans by 2030 ...

Every year, more than eight million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean, costing at least $8 billion (7.1 billion euros) in damage to marine ecosystems and killing an estimated one million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and untold numbers of fish. ...

The current trend of plastic pollution in oceans will result in disposed plastic waste outweighing fishes by the year 2050 ...

The world is fighting with immense plastic pollution, marine experts fear that there could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. On World Oceans Day, we look at some of the reactions on Twitter ...

It is advocated that in the plastic recycling process one third of plastic packaging ends being lost or wasted during the collection and processing. And if plastic pollution continues at this rate then by 2050 world oceans will more plastic than fish ...