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What started as a love for surfing… turned into a mission to protect the ocean that inspires him.What he calls it the Island-Wide Clean Up Project.

Once seen as a barren plastic wasteland, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a thriving habitat for coastal species. These ...

The world’s largest garbage dump isn’t on land. It is twice the size of Texas and floats in the Pacific Ocean. Douglas A.

When NASA installed a unique imaging sensor on the outside of the International Space Station, the original intent was to help map the composition of minerals on the Earth's surface. Far from the only ...

The U.S. State Department has sanctioned officials from the Pacific Island nations of Palau and the Marshall Islands for corruption amid concerns over Chinese influence. Palau and the Marshall Islands ...

The United States Coast Guard has seized more than 200,000 pounds of cocaine from foreign drug traffickers and cartels since August, attributing the haul over the last six months to a particular ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. zhengjie wu / Getty Images It’s ...

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static—a massive, still abyss far removed ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A piece of Alabama washed up on an English beach this weekend—and it wasn’t what most people would expect to find thousands of miles from home. Ryan Stalker was walking along ...