When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery ...

Scientists believe the whale, which beached in Kauai, died from ingesting fishing traps and nets, plastic bags, and other marine debris. The 56-foot, 120,000-pound marine mammal had foreign objects at ...

Large-scale removal of discarded fishing gear and other plastic debris from the waters of Northwestern Hawaii meaningfully reduced entanglement rates of endangered Hawaiian monk seals, according to a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed the Save Our Seas Act 2.0 Amendments Act into law, strengthening and reauthorizing a ...

An astonishing marine fungus eating away at debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is providing hope as a natural solution to a common toxic plastic waste. As detailed on Phys.org, microbiologists ...

Maui resident Cheryl King, founder of environmental Sharkastics, helps collect marine debris with volunteers so it can be sent to the Center for Marine Debris Research on Oahu. The center could have ...

A team of researchers at RIT is expanding its work in studying the impact of marine debris beyond the Rochester region and into nearby Great Lakes communities. “Over the past year, our community ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) at HPU has launched the state’s first Plastic Recycling Research Facility. The goal of the new facility is to get marine debris out of ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — During long weekends and holidays, beaches are typically a lot more crowded than usual. But unfortunately, with more people usually comes more trash and waste, and not all of it ...

KAILUA, Hawaii (Island News) -- Inside a Windward Oʻahu warehouse, piles of trash cover the floor, fishing nets, oyster spacers, toothbrushes, toys, even mannequin heads and duck decoys. It may look ...

A groundbreaking scientific study conducted along the Southeast coast of India has unearthed a pressing environmental concern -- the increasing risk of invasive species colonization on marine debris.

Map of the Mediterranean Sea showing the locations of marine debris accumulations detected thanks to the European satellite Copernicus Sentinel-2. Each red circle represents an accumulation detected ...