Toys, electronics and road signs were among the more unusual items volunteers collected from New Jersey’s beaches last year. (Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action) This story is part of the WHYY News ...

One beach on the Italian island of Sardinia will only be accessible to visitors by booking through an app this summer. Crescent-shaped Tuerredda beach has already been capping visitor numbers at ...

In late November, a gaggle of open-water swimmers set out from Sydney’s Bondi Beach. About 500 meters (1,600 feet) from shore, they stopped and formed a line 150 meters (about 500 feet ...

Mayim Bialik said her years on "The Big Bang Theory" were "grief-heavy" and "complicated" — but her struggles didn't stop when the cameras were off. From going through a divorce to backlash over ...

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 ...

With so much frenetic activity emanating from the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have its hands full at the moment. But there are two upcoming cases that, while not ...

There’s a familiar story our society tells itself about the history of religion. It goes like this: Since the dawn of time, humans have held superstitious beliefs about a divine creator or a ...

Each of those items was found by volunteers cleaning up New Jersey’s beaches last spring and summer, according to the environmental group Clean Ocean Action, which released its annual beach ...

Yes, the beaches here are sometimes littered with the stuff, but do we casual beach strollers stand any chance of finding it? Gold is a valuable element with a wide range of uses, from wealth ...

Also known as by-the-wind sailors, the free-floating Velella velella are coating California beaches once again. Robin Wilson via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 California beachgoers have ...