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The documentary "Out of Plain Sight" will make its West Coast premiere during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The documentary follows the investigation into thousands of barrels of DDT ...

Ocean Legacy has a task not even Sisyphean would envy: picking up, sorting and recycling the vast amount of plastic that ends up on our shores. Nick Gammon / Alamy This article is from Hakai Magazine, ...

Gianni Valenti is the president of French NGO Gaia First, which is an organization working to end plastic pollution in coastal communities around the world. He’s also a dad. And it was his daughter ...

A new study finds that a handful of nations are responsible for the vast majority of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans. Just 10 countries account for more than 80% of all ocean-bound plastic, ...

HULL, Mass. (WWLP) – A unique and thought-provoking art installation made entirely from ocean trash is now on permanent display at the Lillian M. Jacobs School in Hull. The exhibit, which depicts ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or ...

Down at the bottom of the ocean, it's not just thermal vents and whale bones. There's a vast accumulation of bottles, plastic bags, and other human-generated rubbish – perhaps the world's largest ...

Some of the barrels off the coast of Los Angeles are surrounded by mysterious white halos in the sediment. Schmidt Ocean Institute In 2011, scientists made a shocking discovery off the coast of Los ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping ...