Crews who helped build the Newport Bay trash interceptor say it has collected about a dozen dumpsters full of debris and ...

Newport Beach debuted its $5.5 million device designed to capture trash flowing into Newport Bay and the ocean.

“I really thought we were going to see a dead body in the ... says marine biologist Nicholas Mallos, who runs the Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas program. “Accumulations like this ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

This study found a link between microplastics in the ocean and disabilities in people who live near the beach. Microplastics come from broken-down plastic trash ... "It's not going to stop ...