77 commercial fishermen conducted more than 690 ghost gear seizures, with the objects taken ashore either for reuse or recycling.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

It looked like an island. At least that's what Jessica Jarratt thought when she first saw pictures of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast floating ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A mass of plastic debris in the ocean – 610,000 square miles, or 79,000 metric tons of it – pulled together by winds and currents. In the middle of the ocean, far away ...

Hawaii Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research Bounty Project has removed more than 185,000 pounds of derelict “ghost” fishing gear from the North Pacific.

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

Filmmaker Melissa Langer’s 2025 documentary, “In Excess,” probes into the unseen places where Philadelphia’s litter ends up.

Air Canada during the fourth quarter continued to see softness in its U.S. transborder segment, executives said on a Friday morning earnings call, although overall business travel revenue increased ...

The M4 iPad Air is set to continue Apple’s tradition of offering a reliable mid-range tablet, combining incremental performance enhancements with a design that remains largely unchanged. While the ...

Cathay Pacific shareholders have approved a deal to buy back Qatar Airways’ stake in Cathay. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal at an extraordinary general meeting held in Hong ...