I am deeply concerned that a project intending to collect plastic from the ocean’s surface, known as The Ocean Cleanup, will sweep up countless floating marine animals–collectively called the ...

Have you seen a dead animal floating head down in a lake? What about a deer carcass on the shoulder of U.S.10? Chances are no one particular agency will be jumping for an opportunity, but last ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not seem like it would be a hospitable place. It is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest streak of land. The sun is brutal and unrelenting there, the waters ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria (AP) — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

A gas bubble rising below the water’s surface gives life to a drifting green blob, threatening to clog floodgates and swamp unsuspecting South Florida. At least that’s the ...