TOKYO >> Marine waste that has drifted from other Asian countries is causing problems in prefectures along the Sea of Japan. Intergovernmental negotiations held in Switzerland in August sought to ...

Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

China, the Philippines, and India top the list of countries whose mismanaged plastic waste most frequently ends up polluting ...

The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier ...

Plastic risk maps reveal hidden ocean hotspots where wildlife faces harm from ingestion, entanglement, and chemicals.

Inside a windward Oʻahu warehouse, piles of trash cover the floor, fishing nets, oyster spacers, toothbrushes, toys, even ...

California Coastal Cleanup Day tries something new: fancy prizes, hidden around the state for volunteers to find ...

Europe is building a virtual twin of the ocean to allow scientists, policymakers and citizens to test ideas, fight pollution ...

Two of the deepest points in the ocean were littered with massive heaps of plastic packaging, mainly plastic bags.

The Ocean Legacy Foundation says that more than one million single-use plastic bottles go missing each year in B.C., with ...

The impact investment firm inked an agreement to partner Norwegian venture capital company Katapult Ocean. Read more at ...

Tofino, the tiny surf townon Vancouver Island, recently announced that single-use plastic water bottles that measure one ...