For more than 20 years, Mussel Rock, a steep stretch of oceanfront land in northern San Mateo County with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and the Farallon Islands, was a garbage dump. Two ...
More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...
When researchers traveled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches. Almost all of ...
In Hawaii, a volunteer cleanup crew is hauling more junk off Kauai’s beaches than ever before. In the 2024 Surfrider Foundation report, the nonprofit reported that its volunteers had removed more than ...