Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Yet, in action, the conservation of the Great Lakes and their abundant natural resources has been ultimately unsuccessful, ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we find out how abandoned fishing gear in the oceans is getting turned into ...

Synopsis: Between the state of California and Hawaiæi lies the great Pacific garbage patch. It is 1.6 million square ...

A protected bird was found dead in an eastern Kansas lake after getting caught in a fishing line, according to The Lawrence ...

But it wasn’t until 1965 that Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin designed the modern plastic bag of today: a flat, one-piece carrier made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE).

The island's climate change minister told leaders at the United Nations Ocean Conference that the extraction of metals from deep sea nodules is essential for energy transition.

The Ocean Cleanup says they could have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch almost entirely eradicated in as little as five years, for a cost of $4 billion. Watch this video to see how much plastic ...

Addressing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not just the responsibility of coastal nations or organizations focused on marine environments—it requires global collaboration.

In addition to removing trash from the garbage patch, the Ocean Cleanup has deployed trash interceptors in waste-ridden outlets to the world's oceans, including one in Marina del Rey. That device kept ...

Six years ago, two ships were sent out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. On Friday, those same two ships returned to San Francisco Bay.