“Castaway” runs through April 6 of next year at Harvard‘s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. The Peabody‘s Ilisa ...

Shelley Beach is situated in the remote Nuyts Wilderness on Western Australia's south coast, but its isolation has not spared ...

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

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

Donald Trump would have us believe he’s struck a blow for middle America by banning weak showers, multiple toilet flushes and ...

The sea is steadily casting remnants of the MSC Elsa 3 onto Kerala's beaches, raising public alarm and triggering urgent ...

Some 20 million people globally collect plastic waste to make a living. In developing countries without formal reuse and ...

Information collected on the plastic debris, such as its size, as well as other factors like rainfall and surface wind ... blow mainly from the north. During this period, higher volumes of trash ...

Credit: The Ocean Cleanup The Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... pull huge volumes of plastic from ocean gyres — large systems of circulating ocean currents formed by wind patterns and the Earth's ...

The majority of plastic ... of the ocean was like looking for needles in a haystack, since the formation of trails requires the presence of a large amount of garbage and little wind to prevent ...

"It was mind blowing ... is plastic, according to the United Nations. Once these plastics enter a gyre, or an ocean vortex, they stay there until they degrade to microplastics. "That garbage ...

"Once you start sifting through it, it's a lot easier to see the trash," he said. While large trash is not as big of a threat, plastic debris ... of this incidental, wind-blown picnic, restaurant ...