In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

Nicole Baker said she started Net Your Problem after working in the maritime industry and witnessing how many nets and plastic materials were not properly discarded. Her business helps fishermen ...

An aerial view of Palmyra Atoll which lies about halfway between Hawai‘i and American Samoa. Palmyra consists of a circular string of about 26 islets nestled among several lagoons and encircled by ...