Over the past decade, environmental disasters that have damaged the world’s oceans have been chronicled. These range from ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually ... It is studying the effects of plastic litter on marine life and plans to launch an inquiry into the effects on human health ...

Marine debris is trash and other solid man-made material that has ended up in the ocean and that is washed up on beaches. Although some of it is waste from ships and seafaring activities ...

Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Plastic can have a fatal effect on marine life ... from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vortex of trash in the North Pacific Ocean that is more than three times the size of Spain.

Ocean and bay recreational waters, especially near storm drains, creeks and rivers can be contaminated with bacteria, ...

“Trash and debris flowing into the ocean is a threat to marine life and coral reefs,” said cleanup coordinator Tiara Stark on Sunday afternoon. “Small pieces of trash are more likely to be ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and trash since the start of its testing phase ...