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Ellen MacArthur

December 2017

  • Ellen MacArthur

    'It's shocking, it's horrendous': Ellen MacArthur's fight against plastic

    She broke the solo record for sailing round the world, but now she is dedicating her life to an even greater challenge – saving it from the destructive tide of plastic pollution

July 2017

  • Lily Cole in T-shirt made from recycled plastic

    Rethinking business
    'Ditch plastic straws' – experts and campaigners on how to cut plastic waste

    From Lily Cole to Dame Ellen MacArthur – experts and campaigners on what more needs to be done to reduce plastic waste

June 2017

  • A file picture dated 13 April 2010 shows a boy from Senegal walking along a polluted beach strewn with predominantly plastic bottles in the village of Ngor, Dakar, Senegal.

    Bottling it
    A million bottles a minute: world's plastic binge 'as dangerous as climate change'

    Exclusive: Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2021, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments

January 2017

  • Armel Le Cléac'h on his yacht, at the Vendée Globe finish line, 19 January 2017

    Le Cléac'h triumphs over Alex Thomson in Vendée Globe

    British sailor in round-the-world yacht race 100 miles behind as Frenchman reaches finish off Atlantic coast of France in 74 days

January 2016

  • A girl recycles plastic bottles in Indonesia

    More plastic than fish in the sea by 2050, says Ellen MacArthur

    One refuse truck-worth of plastic is dumped into the sea every minute, and the situation is getting worse

January 2014

  • Pile of smart phones

    Circular economy
    Circular economy offers business transformation and $1tn of savings

    World Economic Forum report says delivering the circular economy will be complex and will need collaboration

August 2012

  • Helen Glover (L) and Heather Stanning, Olympic rowers

    Women's 2012 triumphs bring hope Games will boost female sporting talent

    First gold-medallist female rowers talk of role models and back the 'inspirational power of sport'

March 2011

  • ellen macarthur top 100 women

    Top 100 women: sport and adventure
    Ellen MacArthur

    Sailor who completed solo circumnavigation race, the Vendée Globe, then broke the non-stop solo world record

October 2009

  • Dame Ellen MacArthur

    Dame Ellen MacArthur quits sailing to fight for green issues

    Sailor who broke the record for solo circumnavigation of the globe says trip to Atlantic made her acutely aware of the challenges facing the planet

December 2008

  • Dame Ellen MacArthur

    Small talk
    Dame Ellen MacArthur

    Britain's greatest solo sailor on her mother's flapjacks, rum drinking on the seven seas and saving the world

January 2008

  • MacArthur praises Joyon record

    Sailing: Ellen MacArthur said she was happy and proud for Francois Joyon after the Frenchman smashed her circumnavigation record

October 2007

  • 'Fear keeps you alive'

    Ellen MacArthur is the world's greatest sailor. She tells Emine Saner what it feels like to climb a 100ft mast in a raging storm, how racing comes before romance - and why she is not bothered about being labelled a whinger.

April 2006

  • MacArthur plays Russian roulette in Chinese fog

  • MacArthur defies elements to claim Asian record

March 2006

  • MacArthur on Asian quest

    Dame Ellen MacArthur covered 144 miles on the first night of her quest to establish 10 record passages in Asian waters in just under two months.

November 2005

  • MacArthur edged out after grandstand finish in Bahia

  • French boat exits Doldrums to take lead off MacArthur

  • MacArthur leads Ecover across Bay of Biscay

  • MacArthur and McDonald already ahead of first wave

October 2005

  • Storms stymie MacArthur's record attempt

    Poor weather conditions have forced Ellen MacArthur to cancel her attempt on the single-handed transatlantic record.

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