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Marine debris collected in a harbor after Hurricane Katrina.

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Hurricane Katrina Marine Debris

Natural disasters can quickly move plastics and other trash into the ocean. This...

A photo of plastic trash floating in the water, taken from below the surface.

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Marine Debris

Plastic trash floats in the waters off the Smithsonian's Carrie Bow Cay field...

Piles of marine debris collected on Midway Atoll

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Marine Debris on Midway Atoll

Piles of marine debris are continually collected by the researchers and workers who...

A piece of marine debris, in the form of a Spam container, found on the deep-sea floor of the Marianas Trench.

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Marine Debris in Marianas Trench

A piece of marine debris, in the form of a Spam container, found on the deep-sea...

Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.

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Bits of Plastic Marine Debris

These bits and pieces of plastic are drying in a petri dish before they are...

Trash Sculpture on the Beach in Bonaire

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Marine Debris: Trash Travels, But You Can Help Stop It

Marine debris--or trash that has washed or been dumped into our ocean and coastal...

Hurricanes hurt humans and marine life.

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Hurricanes and Marine Life

When hurricanes blow through an area, they don’t just have an impact on humans....

plastic washed ashore on a beach

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Marine Debris

Ocean debris is a global problem that is slowly destroying the biological aspect of...

Fri, 01/14/2011 - 13:11

Purple and blue thumbnail of ocean plants of some sort.

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Impacts of Marine Debris

Human-created debris finds its way to some of the most remote corners of the globe...

Mon, 09/11/2017 - 12:08

A student uses a marker to decorate a reusable lunch bag with ocean creatures

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Design Your Own Bag

Marine debris damages habitat, entangles wildlife, helps transport invasive...

Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.

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Plastic Garbage Litters a Beach

A still from a video documenting a remote beach in Curaçao that's been blanketed...

Instead of creating sculptures like this one, volunteers with Debris Free Bonaire collect and throw out trash. As of May 2014, the group has removed more than 5,650 cubic feet of marine plastic from Bonaire's eastern coastline!

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Cleaning Bonaire's Beaches

Bonaire, a small Caribbean island just north of Venezuela, is routinely ranked as a...