Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

In just its first few weeks in operation, a low-tech water wheel has already scooped up enough trash and debris from the ...

According to Alter Terra statistics, by sheer volume, plastic bottles make up 41 percent of all the trash that flows in from ...

Team Ocean plans to raise awareness around pollution and heat through social media and at popular events, like the World Cup ...

Students at Lillian M. Jacobs School in Hull turned ocean trash into an art installation. The project began with sixth graders collecting over 40 bags of trash from a local beach. Art teachers and ...

Millions of tonnes of rubbish is being washed out to sea every year, severely harming millions of marine animals. We look at ...

1. The North Pacific has a plastic trash problem that popularly goes by the name X. But contrary to what it suggests, the ...