On July 4, tens of thousands descend on the Long Beach Peninsula. The crowds and leftover garbage have spurred some peninsula ...

The Yemeni island of Socotra was largely unspoiled, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense. Now it is ...

Scott, a commercial diver and part-time conservationist based in Ladysmith, a small town on the east coast of Vancouver ...

Seaside 'spec' house just fetched $38.75 million in Palm Beach. It was built and sold by a company managed by trash mogul ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed ...

A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes is floating in the Pacific Ocean. By Emily Wright, World News Reporter ...

Hinchcliffe’s comments included referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and a generalization about Latinos, stating they “love making babies.” ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of volunteers collected more than 2,000 lbs. of trash from Kingman Island along the banks of the Anacostia River on Saturday. The nonprofit Ocean Conservancy says 287 ...

A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. Ciesielska-Wrobel checks on her new industrial knitting machine.

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he noticed a steady stream of plastics bobbing in the ocean. He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic ...