Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YMCA campers climb a sand dune in Coronado, Calif., in July. Campers must be bused to various beaches due to Imperial Beach being ...

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Ella Basel, 12, looks forward to Kids Ocean Day, when she can share her passion for the ocean, environment and keeping both clean with other Los Angeles youths. In past years, she recalls seeing the ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

New research has shown that blue sharks’ intestines act like temporary holding tanks, trapping fibers long enough to build up significant amounts. Their epic migrations mean they can spread these ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. Every ...