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

The Surfrider Foundation refers to July 5 as the “dirtiest beach day of the year” in the United States, and they are preparing for a surge of post‑holiday debris on coastlines nationwide. The national ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to the world's oceans and ecosystems, and experts warn that ...

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 ...