Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine plastic litter tends to grab headlines, with images of suffocating seabirds or bottles washing up along coastlines.

Volunteers, along with Southern Water's Eastbourne Wastewater Treatment Works, worked to remove the beads as quickly and ...

Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from New Jersey beaches. Plastic made up 83% of debris picked up by beach sweep volunteers, up from about 50% in the ...

"We call ... to address this emerging threat." Experts call for 'urgent global action' after making disturbing discovery deep ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

The world is finally catching up to a simple fact: you cannot solve the ocean plastics crisis in the ocean alone. You need to solve it on land too. As we mark World Oceans Day and gather at the UN ...

Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...