WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave's summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ...

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 the ...

Leading shipping companies are joining forces to combat ocean plastic pollution through the launch of the Maritime Association for Clean Seas (MACS): a new industry alliance driving measurable ...

Mark Snyder’s eighth-grade government students at Shirland School have been studying the meaning of citizenship and its rights, duties and responsibilities. One of the responsibilities of citizenship ...