Marine debris – litter that ends up in the ocean, seas and other large bodies of water – has been carried by currents to a vast area in the North Pacific. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is ...

As a result, animals can become trapped in these ghost nets and die ... and roughly half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of abandoned netting. Taking local climate action is a great way to ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

Archaeologists in Peru announced they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, in an ...

Besides burning thousands of homes and displacing residents, the January fires, like earlier ones, upended the natural ...

Each week, NorthJersey.com would like to highlight adoptable animals from local shelters and rescues. If you foster, work at, or volunteer with a North Jersey animal shelter or rescue and know of ...

A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Ecuador on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 6:44 a.m. Ecuador time about ...

The Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), a North Kitsap non-profit animal shelter, is celebrating 50 years of service. PAWS offers adoption services, pet retention resources and programs for ...

In a remote and lushly forested area of a single mountain range on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, scientists have discovered a ...