KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Every spring, as scores of volunteers scour the shorelines of the Lake of the Ozarks looking for trash, much of their haul is chunks of floating, dingy blobs. Tons of the stuff -- ...

It appears Republicans and Democrats may have found something to agree on – foam-based docks don’t belong in New York’s waterways. Earlier this year, state Sen. Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, introduced S ...

Everywhere they look, Pacific Northwest scientists find teeny-tiny plastic pollution. Broken down particles are in our water, falling out of the air, in salmon, shellfish and in our own bodies.

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In Miami Beach, it’s now illegal to package any food or drinks in Styrofoam containers, which dissolve into tiny particles that float along the top of the ocean for hundreds of years. The City of ...

The first major winter storm of the year in Lake Tahoe brought more than just snow to its sandy shores — it also spread hundreds of thousands of pieces of polystyrene into the lake. The plastic foam ...

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If all goes as planned, by the end of August somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 docks will have been surveyed in anticipation of the year-end ban on non-encapsulated foam. By using digital ...

ROGERS — Dock owners on Beaver Lake and similar U.S. Army Corps of Engineers properties still have years to replace Styrofoam with encapsulated flotation, park ranger Alan Bland said. The nationwide ...

Walking along the shoreline of the St. Lawrence River Thousand Islands, the beaches may seem scenic and pristine. However, upon closer inspection, a barely noticeable form of pollution is encroaching ...