On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there was more.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Los Angeles County health officials have issued an ocean water closure in Malibu after about 1,000 to 10,000 gallons of untreated sewage was released into the ocean. The water closure impacts Encinal ...