With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

Getty Image It is no secret that plastic is bad for our oceans. For years, many people have known about the many harmful ...

A new plan aims to clean more than 80% of the North Pacific Garbage Patch - the ocean's largest floating plastic garbage ...

Surrounded by the meeting point of two powerful ocean currents and framed by dramatic coastlines, the Mother City's identity ...

A nonprofit organization aimed at cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch made a stop in San Francisco on Friday to deliver a message. After six years of trying to find a solution to the garbage ...

Volunteers collected trash ranging from small plastics to larger items and filled buckets and trash bags as they walked the ...

Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave's summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — National Clean Beach Week comes at the perfect time after Independence Day festivities left Virginia beaches littered with trash. The day after the Fourth of July, instead of sleeping ...

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 ...

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 ...

An environmental group is sharing unusual items that were picked up during a beach cleanup — and why a lost engagement ring ...

Clean Ocean Action has been hosting beach cleanups, collecting data and advocating for legislative changes for over 40 years.