It appears Republicans and Democrats may have found something to agree on – foam-based docks don’t belong in New York’s waterways. Earlier this year, state Sen. Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, introduced S ...

ROGERS — Dock owners on Beaver Lake still have time to remove old extruded polystyrene - commonly called Styrofoam - flotation and replace it with encapsulated floatation, said U.S. Army Corps of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Every spring, as scores of volunteers scour the shorelines of the Lake of the Ozarks looking for trash, much of their haul is chunks of floating, dingy blobs.

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Miami Beach environmentalist Dave Doebler says he doesn’t think most people know how bad Styrofoam really is for the ocean. He says he sees people using temporary, floating docks made from bare ...

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Everywhere they look, Pacific Northwest scientists find teeny-tiny plastic pollution. Broken down particles are in our water, falling out of the air, in salmon, shellfish and in our own bodies.

When Sallie Dickinson and her family go out to enjoy the sandy shore near their Topsail Island home, they are always mindful to be stewards for the beach by picking up litter. "That's kind of our rule ...

The only foam we want on our seasides is caused by agitated seawater and dissolved organic matter (a natural occurrence, ...