Smoking waste accounts for one in four littered items on U.S. beaches, presenting environmental and economic concerns, according to the Surfrider Foundation.

A nine-year-old boy who litter-picks every day – even diving underwater to remove rubbish – is on a mission to protect ...

Scientists are starting to reintroduce a 20-legged predator to kelp beds off Washington state after an underwater pandemic nearly wiped it out.

American movie actors usually dispose of cigarette butts with a charismatic flip onto the ground. As a litter abatement specialist, I can attest to the fact that many smokers mimic this indecent ...

Deploying trackable floating bottles, researchers are working to better understand how litter gets into waterways and travels ...

The Commonwealth Clean Oceans Plastics campaign, part of the King’s Baton Relay, removed 1 million pieces of plastic from ...

Experienced by Kimatni D. Rawlins A five-year pact with the sea grows extensions in Southern California: part water, part ...

The Friends of Sengekontacket and Beach BeFrienders MV announced that their beach cleanup during the holiday weekend, on July ...

A statewide effort to tackle shoreline litter, in which participants will clean waterways and report debris to support future ...

Two of the heaviest Surfrider Foundation beach cleanups of 2025 happened on the Washington coast, with volunteers hauling ...

Scientists discovered that extreme deep-sea pressure squeezes valuable nutrients out of sinking organic particles, providing ...