FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – World Oceans Day is on June 8, and the community can celebrate with a beach cleanup on Folly Beach. “Toby & Friends World Oceans 🌎 Day Sweep brings awareness of how ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - For over two decades, people across the globe have joined forces on June 8 for World Oceans Day to protect and restore the big, blue bodies of water. Tybee Clean Beach ...

Amid the layers of microbes surrounding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists have discovered a plastic-eating fungus called Parengyodontium album, which appears to be eating away at some of the ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, explains the nonprofit's mission to clean up floating plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I'm an award-winning Video Producer and Host for ...

Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we tackle plastic pollution, from autonomous robots to artificial intelligence ...

This story was originally published by Yale 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California ...

Andrew Sharpless has always used the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina to mark important occasions in his life. He got married there, goes back on vacations, and recently took his children ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...