BARATARIA, La. — Floating problems in Bayou Barataria make navigating the major waterway in lower Jefferson Parish difficult for boats large and small. “It’s just another hurdle to navigate in an ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (KABC) -- Following January's wildfires, there have been reports of increased debris floating off the Southern California coast, including a viral video that showed a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Coast Guard issued a warning on Wednesday about the hazards in the San Francisco Bay as a direct result of our recent storms. The next time your ferry it late, it could be ...

NANTUCKET, MASS. (WHDH) - Crews collected debris off Nantucket beaches and tracked other floating debris off the Nantucket coast Monday, more than a week after an offshore wind turbine blade broke ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is telling the public to stay off Douglas Lake near Dandridge as it prepares to deploy a 4,000-foot floating barrier to catch a one-square-mile patch of debris from ...

Have you ever looked out at a lake, river or harbor and been taken aback by the amount of floating trash and debris? A start-up company called Clear Robotics is tackling this environmental issue in an ...

Over the weekend, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered, leading to “large floating debris and fiberglass shards” threatening local beachgoers. On Wednesday, the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A “large field of floating debris” measuring around one square mile in size on Douglas Lake has prompted the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to issue a boating advisory.

Antarctica's unique ecosystems are increasingly at risk from non-native marine species and pollution carried from Southern Hemisphere landmasses, according to a new study published in Global Change ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.