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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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 ...

When Sallie Dickinson and her family go out to enjoy the sandy shore near their Topsail Island home, they are always mindful to be stewards for the beach by picking up litter. "That's kind of our rule ...

San Diego passed an ordinance in 2023 to curb single-use plastics like polystyrene (aka Styrofoam), including foam dock floats, buoys and navigation markers, but things like sandbags and tobacco waste ...