One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

The world’s oceans are awash in plastic, and the problem is only getting worse. Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastic debris ends up in the oceans, and that’s on top of the 150 million metric ...

Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

It's already been cast as an economic villain, to the tune of $2.5 trillion, disrupting "almost all marine ecosystem services" and suffocating every industry it touches. Now, plastic pollution in ...

Plastic waste littering the ocean isn’t something people want to think about. Everyone has seen pictures of the garbage patches located in isolated areas of the ocean. It’s horrifying, but not ...

In his personal diary, Andy Warhol once scribbled: “I want to be plastic.” The late artist was fascinated with generic, mass-produced commodities – hence his compilation of Campbell’s soup cans – as a ...

Deloitte has calculated the annual cost of marine plastic pollution to be $6-19 billion a year to key economic sectors for coastal communities. One of the most innovative solutions to tackling the ...

Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem, according to a new study. Researchers compared estimates of current and future plastic waste with ...

MONTEREY — A just-released study from the marine conservation group Oceana reports that over 90% of the 1,800 marine animals it studied had eaten plastic, which can lead to pain, starvation, and death ...

NEPTUNE - Whether a proposed residential parking permit program would solve Ocean Grove’s parking issues was discussed at a special meeting of the Township Committee. "Ocean Grove has a parking ...

OCEAN SHORES -- A cool fog enveloped the Texaco station early yesterday morning, where one year ago a 20-year-old man waving a Confederate flag was fatally stabbed by a Vietnamese man he had incited ...