At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

What’s the best way to get plastic out of the ocean? Two nonprofits take different approaches to the problem of removing the 24 billion pounds of plastic that flow into the ocean each year—and face ...

Global nonprofit organization, The Ocean Cleanup, reinforces its commitment to mitigating ocean-bound plastic waste from the ...

A pollution expert on why any attempt to rid the ocean of plastic completely is doomed to fail—and what we actually need to be focusing on. Reading time 8 minutes Cleaning up plastic in the ocean ...

Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among several championed today by nine distinguished international experts appointed to help ...

Environmentalists say that New Jersey’s beaches have come a long way since the troubled times of the late 1980s. An organization that helped to clean up the pollution at the Jersey Shore is restarting ...

The environmental nonprofit organization Clean Ocean Action has led its annual “Beach Sweeps” over the past 40 years to pick up piles of trash that has washed ashore.(Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action) ...

NORFOLK, Va. — National Clean Beach Week comes at the perfect time after Independence Day festivities left Virginia beaches littered with trash. The day after the Fourth of July, instead of sleeping ...