It was ideal weather at Huntington State Beach on Tuesday morning, for an ideal cause. More than 1,000 elementary school students from inland Orange County gathered there, near Lifeguard Tower 13.

Ella Basel loves spending time near the ocean. But a few years ago, she noticed plastic washing up ashore or being littered about during frequent trips to the beach with her family. Ella, a student at ...

Kids from all over Orange County hit the beaches Tuesday afternoon to help clean up their shores as part of Kids Ocean Day, an educational outreach program that encourages kids to learn about coastal ...

Ella Basel, 12, looks forward to Kids Ocean Day, when she can share her passion for the ocean, environment and keeping both clean with other Los Angeles youths. In past years, she recalls seeing the ...

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More than 1,600 pounds of trash was plucked from the ocean over the course of a month as part of the eighth annual Cash Trash Bash fundraiser. Karen Plianthos, the founder of the event, said this ...

Down at the bottom of the ocean, it's not just thermal vents and whale bones. There's a vast accumulation of bottles, plastic bags, and other human-generated rubbish – perhaps the world's largest ...

Once the plastic ends up in the open ocean, it's really difficult to get it out. The consequences from the mass production, consumption and discarding of plastics continue to get worse and worse, and ...