Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you pick up plastic trash from a beach, you’re helping protect marine wildlife from harm. And every little piece—from a plastic ...

Being a two-time Paralympic gold medalist is an outstanding feat that only a small percentage of the global population has the privilege of saying. And doing so before your 20th birthday, like ...

The top trash items collected in SC are all single-use plastics, like cigarette butts, beverage cans and food wrappers.

“Ocean Plastics are an Existential Threat to the Diversity of Life on Our Planet”: Data Show that Nearly Half of Animals that Ingested Plastics were Red-Listed as Threatened Species WASHINGTON — The ...

WASHINGTON — When it comes to laws addressing plastic pollution, the vast majority of states need improvement to reduce, reuse and recycle, according to the new United States of Plastic Report from ...

Ocean Conservancy estimates that close to 200 million metrics tons of plastic are circulating in our ocean, with an estimated additional 11 million metrics tons added each year—equivalent to more than ...

Ocean Conservancy on Wednesday released a report that proposes a four-point solution to cutting ocean plastic waste by 45 percent by 2025 with the ultimate goal of eradicating the issue by 2035.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Ocean Conservancy researchers, the paper is the most comprehensive study yet to quantify the extent to which a range of plastic ...

One of the most common pieces of advice people are given when it comes to taking better care of the planet is to clean up trash in their natural areas. Beach cleanups and trash pickup events are held ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — A newly released study from Ocean Conservancy is sounding a stark warning about the deadly impact plastic pollution is having on Florida’s most iconic marine life, finding that ...

Just a baseball-sized piece of plastic can kill an adult Florida manatee, and other marine wildlife are at similar risk, according to a new report from the Ocean Conservancy. A leader from Ocean ...