It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

For more than 20 years, Mussel Rock, a steep stretch of oceanfront land in northern San Mateo County with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and the Farallon Islands, was a garbage dump. Two ...

An entire community of Japanese marine animals survived one of the wildest ocean journeys ever documented. After a power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

Rather than a dense, walkable mass, the patch is a vast region with elevated plastic concentrations.

Environmentalists have removed more than 40 tons of plastic from the Pacific Ocean. The group, Ocean Voyages Institute, said the cleanup mission was the “largest and most successful ocean cleanup to ...

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Anytime it rains, trash comes flushing through storm drains and gutters, into rivers and downstream straight into the ocean and onto beaches. The picturesque beaches that Southern California is known ...