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Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!
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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

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A plastic bag floats at sea.
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Plastic Bag Bans Work

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The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred on March 24, 1989 when an oil tanker grounded on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. It spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil, which reached 1,300 miles of coastline. The spill's remote location, accessib
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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A photo of a European flounder in the Baltic Sea.
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Flounder Faces Pollution and Overfishing in Baltic Sea

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Head shot of Dr. Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
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Lecture: "Troubled Waters in the Gulf of Mexico"

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Much of the plastic comes from litter on land, which washes down storm drains and eventually makes it to the ocean. Some bits are from fishing nets and lines discarded by fishing boats.
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Laysan Albatrosses’ Plastic Problem 7

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Oil leaks from cars and other vehicles contribute to ocean pollution.
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Oil Leak on Roadway

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A placard warns residents that water—and anything else—that goes own this storm drain makes its way into the Potomac River and, eventually the ocean.
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Marked Storm Drain

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Workers contracted by BP load oily waste onto a trailer on Elmer's Island, just west of Grand Isle, La., May 21, 2010.
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Workers

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Algae has overtaken this coral reef off heavily populated Kiritimati, or Christmas Island.
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Unhealthy Coral Reef, Kiritimi, Line Islands

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Dark brown oil floods a marsh after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Oily Marsh after the Oil Spill

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Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

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