Surfrider Foundation

A white trailer stood by itself on the sand near the entrance to Oceanside Harbor. No one wanted to use it, but many were happy it was there.

An underwater pipeline leak off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, has sent tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean impacting wildlife and the environment and leaving many wondering: How can I help?

That’s not seaweed on the beach…After an oil spill closed beaches in Huntington Beach, California, crews are on the scene trying to clean up local wildlife and stop oil from clogging up rivers and harming marine life there. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain shows us a closed beach with oil all over the sand.

Groups of volunteers canvassed San Diego beaches to clean up trash left by litterbugs celebrating Independence Day over the weekend.

Volunteers will scour through several San Diego County beaches to clean the litter left behind by Fourth of July visitors. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford has more.

Dozens of volunteers canvassed San Diego County beaches on Monday in a cleanup organized by the Surfrider Foundation to remove garbage left behind by litterbugs over the Independence Day weekend.

San Diego Surfrider’s Blue Water Task Force has been testing ocean waters off IB and San Diego for years. Now it’s headed north.

San Diego Surfrider’s Blue Water Task Force has been testing ocean waters off IB and San Diego for years. Now it’s headed north

Volunteers on Sunday began picking up trash at beaches left by Fourth of July revelers in the Surfrider Foundation San Diego County “Morning After Mess” cleanup, organizers said.

A beach cleanup also featured speakers promoting a new bill that, if passed, would reduce single use plastics by 75% by 2030

Many of the gathered volunteers are supporters of a new law that would require plastic manufacturers in California to drastically reduce production over the next decade.

With recurring sewage spills, some San Diegans are still afraid to go into the water at some of the county’s southern-most beaches.

The San Diego City Council is set to vote Tuesday on whether to join a California lawsuit against the International Boundary Water Commission (IBWC) over sewage flow from Tijuana, Mexico into the United States.

Contaminated runoff washed into the Tijuana River south of the border makes its way onto the Imperial Beach shoreline nearly every time it rains, and an incoming King Tide will likely push sewage and other toxins into city streets Friday.

The newest source of drinking water in our county just reached a major milestone.

Dirty Heads, Bishop Briggs, lovelytheband, Superorganism and Two Feet perform at Alt 949’s Indie Jam 2018 at the Oceanside Pier Amphitheatre on Saturday, Sept. 8. Read on for tickets details and more.

Hundreds of volunteers collected more than 800 pounds of trash from San Diego’s beaches Wednesday, tackling the mess left by a weekend of Fourth of July parties and picnics.

Organizers said last year, several hundred volunteers gathered up to 1,400 pounds of trash.

An extremely venomous yellow-bellied snake, only documented to have washed ashore in California twice before, was found dead on in Huntington Beach Thursday, according to the Surfrider Foundation.