Sometimes a single moment can change everything. For Boyan Slat, that moment happened at age sixteen while scuba diving on a vacation in Greece. He looked around and saw more plastic bags than fish.

NEW YORK -- A throwaway culture of single-use plastics and other hard-to-degrade material has sullied the world's waters over the decades, posing a danger to marine life such as seals and seabirds.

Orlando-based Darden Restaurants will be closing all of its remaining Bahama Breeze locations nationwide, ending the brand after 30 years. Fire crews extinguish apartment fire at PBA dorms, residents ...

'Dive Against Debris' makes ocean safer for sharks, habitat Link Copied! The nonprofit PADI Aware holds regular cleanup dives in waterways around the world. The number one thing they find is plastic ...

EDITORS’ NOTE: Cleanup initiatives on the southern coast of Brooklyn & Queens have been working well over the past two decades. The Eagle has extensively reported on the renewed Jamaica Bay, where ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...

The Scuba Queen Organization is a non-profit that aims to give women opportunities to keep the ocean clean through scuba diving. On Friday, Sept. 5, the organization will host a beach cleanup at 6 p.m ...

The cleanup was held Saturday, Sept. 14, to mark the first day of PADI Aware Conservation Week, a global event focused on environmental conservation and local efforts to remove trash. According to ...

VANESSA THANK YOU. WE’RE COVERING YOUR COMMUNITY. A GROUP FORMED BY THREE WOMEN SCUBA DIVERS CALLED TRASHY GIRLS COLLECTIVE IS HAVING ITS FIRST BOAT DIVING CLEANUP OF THE YEAR THIS THIS WEEKEND IN ...