Let’s be clear from the start, you should never throw trash in the oceans. It is a huge ecological problem, and this type of pollution is responsible for a huge amount of environmental damage and the ...

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...

Could this technology finally be a solution for the plastic problem reaching the ocean, here and around the world?

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In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the vast rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call ...

The Moken, a nomadic seafaring people in Thailand, have for generations lived most of their days at sea, moving from one place to another, fishing and foraging. However, with protected areas and ...

and missions, (2) be sized to the space available on boats and ships, (3) be reliable and cost effective and (4) produce processed garbage in appropriate form for safe disposal as defined by Annex V ...