The Scottish Coastal Clean Up nears its goal of removing one million pieces of plastic from Scotland’s beaches and waterways ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

Guided by floating barriers, the Interceptor has already stopped more than 143,000lbs of rubbish from entering the Pacific from one LA river ...

Our oceans are the foundation of life on Earth, providing the conditions that allow people and nature to thrive.

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Interceptor boat-barge could significantly clean our waters. Devised by the non-profit Ocean Cleanup organization, the garbage ...

The environmental nonprofit organization Clean Ocean Action has led its annual “Beach Sweeps” over the past 40 years to pick up piles of trash that has washed ashore.(Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action) ...

In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the vast rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend to become trapped rather than drift away. That is where the Great Pacific ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Engineered bacteria from NC State breaks down ocean plastic. NC State scientists are studying a bacteria that breaks down PET, the plastic used in some water bottles and clothing. They've engineered ...

How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to marine snow. These particles gradually sink through the ocean, carrying ...