The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New research shows they’re still protecting the land. Dense piles of oyster ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

OCEAN CITY — The city hopes a new program will mean less trash left on beaches, offering mesh bags for beachcombers to collect waste. In time for a weekend community beach cleanup by Clean ...

As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

Bits of plastic garbage wash against a remote island in Raja Ampat ... a floating boom for collecting plastic litter in the Pacific Ocean, as part of the Ocean Cleanup program, being assembled ...

US President Donald Trump recently posted three images of floating ocean debris on social media Truth Social, claiming it was in the Pacific Ocean and caused by China. However, these pictures turned ...

Rebecca Arnold and Meg Hollister worked among the dandelions in an empty lot across the street from Thurgood Marshall Learning Center in Rock Island, gathering trash and stacking other large ...

A mysterious island once hidden beneath the ocean is now rising to the surface, revealing secrets locked away for millions of years. A Nation is making a bold move to claim this newly uncovered land, ...

Did you know that there's a garbage patch twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean? What's more, this trash pool is almost entirely made up of plastic. How bad do you think that is for ...

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