WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One nonprofit is hosting an evening of fun to celebrate its accomplishments in keeping the ocean free of plastic pollution. Marisa Marzilli and Bonnie Monteleone with the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

Three months ago, five gifted students from St. Anne-Pacelli Catholic School started sacrificing after-school time and Saturdays to come up with a winning project idea that would combat a problem in ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Marine plastic waste is a huge problem, but non-profit the Ocean Cleanup has been taking a bite out of floating trash in oceans and rivers for the last few years. Now pop-rock band Coldplay is about ...

Boyan Slat made waves when he was just a teenager with an audacious dream to rid the world’s oceans of plastic waste. Slat’s first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, as the founder and CEO of The Ocean ...

A new global alliance supports a community-investment project called Renew Oceans as part of its commitment to reduce plastic waste in the environment. Ten rivers transport more than 90% of ...

Single-use plastics pose a major problem for the environment, especially our oceans. Did you know plastic detrimentally impacts about 700 marine species? By 2050, there could be more plastic, by ...

A GLOBAL nonprofit organization is set to deploy plastic waste interceptors to capture ocean-bound plastic waste in Manila.