Rescuers in Cebu City have recovered 28 bodies from a garbage mound that collapsed last week. The search continues for eight ...

Rajan and fellow Port Washington residents David Jakim, Hildur Palsdottir and Annemarie Ansel created ReWild Long Island, ...

Millions of tons of microplastics flow into the ocean every year, but tracking the movement and accumulation of those microscopic polymers is difficult. A new study builds a theory of how spherical ...

Plastics are made from crude oil and petroleum by-products, so a team of scientists decided to explore if they could turn waste cooking oil into a useful plastic material, and they succeeded. The ...

Discover the shocking truth about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) and the real culprits behind ocean pollution. This video dives deep into the massive accumulation of plastic pollution in the ...

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Yachats on Nov. 15 and was euthanized following two days of being stranded on the beach. Marine officials determined the animal had been entangled in crab pot ...

When we picture the open Pacific, we imagine endless blue water and not much else. Marine researchers, however, are now seeing something very different: places like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, long known as a vast expanse of plastic waste, is now home to an unexpected and thriving marine ecosystem. Recent research has uncovered that the debris accumulating ...