If you’re a certain age, you probably had a Cabbage Patch Kid growing up. And if you know what those are, you’ve probably ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a remote island off the coast of Chile. As of 2023, its population ...

Heaps of medical waste, including needles, syringes, and pill bottles washed up on Mid-Atlantic beaches in September of this ...

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from ... six reactors went into meltdown in 2011 after the huge ...

Recently much attention has focused on the problem of microplastics in our environment. Garbage dumped in the ocean deliberately or washed into it as a result of storms can take years to break down.

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a research lab near Tokyo, the plant operator said Tuesday, after a journey kept ...

A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, but what about other large pieces of space debris?

Technicians tested the radiation level of debris from inside a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima plant on Tuesday after it was removed by a robot for the first time since the nuclear power station ...

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with ...

If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could ... a profusion of organic and synthetic debris. Not long ago I went snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean, a half mile off the southwest ...

Debris Free Oceans also has partnered with Ocean Conservancy and Big Blue + You to train local high school students to become junior sustainability consultants. As part of DFO’s Plastic Free ...