This month, we check in with our riverboom program in South Africa, roll up our sleeves to clean up an illegal garbage dump in the jungles of Cozumel and explore an ambitious new program in Sri Lanka.

Jem Cresswell’s journey to an underwater kingdom of giants.

Every year, heavy trawling nets scrape an area of the ocean floor larger than the size of Canada – disturbing carbon stored in the seabed, destroying corals and sponges and decimating marine life.

This month, we check in with a landmark new program in the Maldives, plant some native beach vegetation in Seychelles and join two massive sea, surf and education events in Brazil.

We catch up with Rick Miskiv, whose underwater photography journey has taken him to capture incredible images in Palau, Baja, Tahiti, Belize and beyond.

We spent a day harvesting bulrush with Ponda, getting a close look at their revolutionary biomaterial.

This month, we return to the far north of Australia, check in on the Parley Hawaiʻi island-wide cleanup and rappel down a ravine in Chile to intercept plastic waste.

We speak with Jane Palmer about her company Nature Coatings and its mission to replace fossil fuel-based materials in every industry.

We speak to one of the most important photographers of our time about her journey from “housewife” to pioneering environmentalist.

With new global plastic treaty talks in Geneva now underway, Eddy Frank Vásquez of Parley Dominican Republic shares his thoughts from the frontlines of the negotiations.

Microplastics and plastic chemicals are in our food and in our water. Is there any way to avoid them?