Today is World Oceans Day, “a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future.” This year’s focus is ...

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 ...

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 ...

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students at Lillian M. Jacobs School in Hull turned ocean trash into an art installation. The project began with sixth graders collecting over 40 bags of trash from a local beach. Art teachers and ...