There to cover Indonesian surfer Dede Suryana (above) in 2012, Noyle found himself literally swimming in a sea of garbage. “It was overwhelming,” he recalls. “I really thought we were going ...

For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean ... buoys to show just how these garbage gyres form.

There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far ... A tributary near Chinatown, where rickety shanties are wedged between modern buildings, is so choked with plastic debris you can walk across ...

If you've visited a modern beach, you've likely seen the depressing ... she collected from the beach herself, called umigomi or "sea trash." "I became aware of environmental issues the moment ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and ...

Students at Lillian M. Jacobs School in Hull turned ocean trash into an art installation. The project began with sixth graders collecting over 40 bags of trash from a local beach. Art teachers and ...

Every instrument they play is made by Oomote himself from trash that washed up on the beach. Surrounded by sea in every direction, both domestic and foreign trash regularly washes up on the ...

The problem is so embedded in modern life that three in four ... barricade to prevent thousands of tons of trash from entering the Caribbean Sea each month. In India, he saw a garbage mountain ...

Trash from all over the world collects in the ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...