Beach clean-ups took place all across the country Friday, including in Maine, as volunteers from the nationwide nonprofit Surfrider Foundation worked to clear trash left behind from Fourth of July ...

Coronado Mayor John Duncan said his biggest concern was that "the reputation as 'the toilet of Mexico'" would hurt the city.

St. Johns County's beaches were cleaned by 250 volunteers, removing 850 pounds of trash to protect sea turtles.

Large amounts of untreated sewage flow daily from Mexico into Imperial Beach, Calif. That has closed beaches and sickened ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Thousands of Central Florida residents participated in the International Coastal Cleanup in Flagler, Volusia and Brevard counties. The event, created by Ocean ...

A record 499 people turned out Thursday on five Tahoe beaches to clean up trash holiday revelers left behind, the highest volunteer turnout yet. They worked on Commons Beach in Tahoe City and ...

Just steps from the exclusive Montage Resort, where an ocean view room costs upwards of $1,000 per night during the summer, waste was overflowing from trash cans on Treasure Island beach.

Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from New Jersey beaches. Plastic made up 83% of debris picked up by beach sweep volunteers, up from about 50% in ...

Nine of the Ocean Conservancy’s top ten items retrieved from its annual beach cleanups are related to food and drink. Food packaging remains the second most common trash item collected during ...

The project began with sixth graders collecting over 40 bags of trash from a local beach. Art teachers and local artist Jackie Kilroe Ranney helped students transform the trash into sea creature ...

Islanders tired of intertidal tires and other beach trash liberated 126 tires for recycling, 542 pounds of beach trash ...