Surfrider Foundation considers July 5 the "Dirtiest Beach Day of the Year." Litter is an issue on Charleston's beaches and ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

Volunteers spent the day picking up trash, weighing it, and getting it off the beach at 12th Street Beach, in part to keep plastics out of Lake Michigan.

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

New research shows shoreline litter in U.S. has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans have gone into effect.

Helga Huntley, Ph.D., helped develop the mathematical framework for evaluating the environmental impacts of removing plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean.

A massive ocean survey finds plastic in every layer of the North Atlantic, revealing how deeply it has invaded marine ecosystems.

Sometimes, the animal is too far gone, forcing authorities to euthanize it. One Salt River horse suffered that fate once it could no longer eat or drink after consuming a discarded plastic bag, 12 ...

In 2023, the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, removed about 25,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.