Category: Environment

Two years ago, a central California teen began what NPR calls a “Sisyphean task”—hauling hundreds of pounds of golf balls off the ocean floor, only to have them reenter the sea as golfers from five nearby golf courses (including Pebble Beach) hit them right back in. Alex Weber was just 16 when she first discovered the shocking…

It’s not an island twice the size of Texas. But it is severely impacting marine life and human health… and incredibly hard to study.

While the use of polychlorinated biphenyls, more commonly known as PCBs, has been banned for more than a decade, the chemical pollutants continue to threaten animals at the top of the food chain. A new study published in the journal Science predicts that current concentrations of PCBs can lead to the disappearance of about half the…

“Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean. Together we can change that: Sign @GreenpeaceInternational ‘s petition: https://act.gp/TruckloadOfPlastic Learn more about the project: www.truckloadofplastic.com

Sinking “Wooden Nickel” boat spills 10 to 20 gallons of fuel to inter-coastal waterway in Dania Beach.

Labor Day is the final day for swimming and most water activities at the Woodward Reservoir in Oakdale.

Environment Texas, a local environmental advocacy group, released a report showing that more than 60 percent of the state’s beaches and watering holes in Austin tested high for bacterial contamination on at least one day during 2017.