commercial fishermen conducted more than 690 ghost gear seizures, with the objects taken ashore either for reuse or recycling.

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ship tows The Ocean Cleanup's first buoyant trash-collecting device into the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay in 2018.

Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and unidentifiable pieces of plastic that ...

The recent headlines around the missing Malaysia Airlines jet caught my eye and not necessarily for the mystery of locating the plane, but for the ocean debris that has been throwing off search crews ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly every day cargo ships arrive here in the Bay Area, carrying everything from cars to consumer goods. But one ship that just docked in Sausalito is delivering cargo ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published ...

In celebration of World Aquatic Life Day, witness the impactful artistry of Washed Ashore's oceanic trash sculptures. This organization transforms ocean garbage into breathtaking, large-scale ...

Plastic trash is littering some of the deepest points beneath the Earth's seas, according to a paper released last month by Japanese researchers. As NBC News reported, the scientists cataloged 3,425 ...