Jorge Gonzalez Escolar is a boater who works for the Neptune Experience, a whale watching excursions business on the coast of ...

An alarming number of sea mammals are washing up on Southern California beaches. Experts predict a possible connection to run ...

Handfuls of California sea lions are getting sick from domoic acid poisoning that stems from algae. If you haven't heard of ...

Some animals now live in a world of plastics—like these hyenas scavenging at a landfill in Harar, Ethiopia. They listen for garbage trucks and find much of their food in trash. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

Millions of tonnes of rubbish is being washed out to sea every year, severely harming millions of marine animals. We look at ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

(A map of the world’s ocean gyres is available at ... seals and other animals. Households and communities can prevent trash from getting into waterways and becoming marine debris by making ...