Articles related to "Marine Trash"

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is where many plastic bottles go once emptied and thrown away. Unfortunately that plastic is killing sea life. Its time to clean it up.

Huge quantities of plastic are accumulating in the middle of the world's oceans, like they have in the North Pacific Central Gyre, creating toxic plastic soups of trash.

Many people spend substantial amounts of money each year on bottled water because they believe that it is cleaner or safer than tap water.

The Caribbean monk seal was the first seal gone extinct from human causes. Can ecotourism help its cousin, the Hawaiian Monk Seal, avoid the same fate?

Keystone species are those whose presence or absence lead to dramatic changes in ecological and species diversity.