Beaches worldwide are experiencing it. Residents sound alarm as remote island beach chokes on unnatural products: 'It's a ...

Plastic littered across the world’s beaches can now be detected from space. Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia developed a new satellite imaging technique ...

We hacked our way through the jungle thinking we were heading to paradise — instead, we landed on a beach littered with rubbish from the ocean. Plastic, ropes, even whole appliances were scattered ...

Gerard Dooly works for the University of Limerick, Ireland. He receives funding under the BLUEPOINT project (EAPA_0035/2022), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the beaches around Tramore in County Waterford, Ireland, where plastic debris ...

Wrightsville Beach, N.C. (WECT) - Volunteers at the Cape Fear Surfrider Foundation are anticipating littered beaches after the Fourth of July - and they need help cleaning them. Dr. Sam Athey, the ...

This year, on International Coastal Cleanup Day last Saturday, volunteers around the world participated in the annual event by collecting and recording trash, cleaning up local beaches and producing ...