The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic waste, spanning an area twice the size of Texas. Composed mainly of plastic debris like toothbrushes, plates, and ...

A new analysis found that ingesting plastic can disrupt proteins that facilitate key functions in seabirds—the latest in a ...

Coast Guard says there are still a few fuel tanks that divers haven't been able to get to, which could be carrying as much as ...

Microplastics are an urgent issue in the Great Lakes. Learn what’s causing them, how it affects health and what you can do.

The Kaisei has been on three separate expeditions to monitor and report on the vast and growing vortex of trash known as the ...

getting caught up in the natural waves of the ocean and other collected pollution, with nowhere to escape. There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly ...

Less is known about how the waste gets to the ocean. But it’s clear that ... when he announced a grand plan to sweep up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of loose marine debris ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally ... the Hawaiian chain is in the drift pattern of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But they never intended to join the growing hunt for ...

A floating boom has surrounded a large two-masted sailing vessel that sank over the weekend at its Alameda dock in the Oakland Estuary. The Kaisei is a ...

Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing ...

This traveling exhibit features nine larger-than-life sculptures of animals made from trash and debris washed up from the Pacific Ocean ... Plastic pollution impacts our Great Lakes as well ...