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

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

Recent water quality issues resulting from the Los Angeles fires have now been compounded by a sewage discharge in Malibu, ...

Giant garbage patches are the most visible part of the oceans’ trash problem. But scientists are also worried about less conspicuous debris known as microplastics. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez ...

Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish.

Trash from all over the world collects in the world’s oceans. Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known as the five gyres.

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 ...

State crews are working across Hawaii to address the aftermath of the recent severe weather, which has left a trail of debris ...

And as she’d soon learn, such seagoing invertebrates often end up in the same locales as plastic, subject to many of the same forces—including wind, waves, and currents—that concentrate trash in ...