We humans have deposited a huge amount of plastic in Earth's waters. There are now five garbage-filled gyres in the world's oceans — the largest and most notorious being the Great Pacific Garbage ...

Local and federal officials on Tuesday celebrated the deployment of a large, floating snake-like divider across the United ...

A floating boom has surrounded a large two-masted sailing vessel that sank over the weekend at its Alameda dock in the Oakland Estuary. The Kaisei is a replica of a 151-foot brigantine tall ship and ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is telling the public to stay off Douglas Lake near Dandridge as it prepares to deploy a 4,000-foot floating barrier to catch a one-square-mile patch of debris from ...

When it rains in northern Mexico, coastal regions in southern California may end up with higher levels of plastic debris and other trash. That's because rivers, creeks and hillsides don't pay ...

On Monday afternoon, a floating boom surrounded a large two-masted sailing vessel that sank over the weekend at its Alameda dock in the Oakland Estuary. The Kaisei is a replica of a 151-foot ...