From beaches across Mexico, groups of women in diving gear who call themselves sirenas, or mermaids, are taking on the ocean’s ghosts. Starting their days at 6 a.m., they search for and remove one of ...

WASHINGTON — To get a delicious piece of shrimp, lobster, fish or crab, fisherman usually put down a net or cage to catch the seafood. Sometimes, those nets and crab pots get lost or abandoned at sea, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bounty of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear was unloaded at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown Tuesday afternoon. Known as ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — As we celebrate Halloween, there's a ghost that haunts below the water's surface in Tampa Bay – and this spooky devil becomes a graveyard for countless marine life. Ghost gear ...

Marine pollution is reaching alarming levels in both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and scientists warn that the biggest threat is not what we can see on the surface. There are countless types of ...

Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups ...