For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won’t be ...

Ocean Conservancy calls for volunteers worldwide to join the 39th annual International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC), the world’s largest beach and waterway cleanup effort, on Saturday, September 21, 2024.

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 tons, ...

Explore the urgent issue of ocean plastic pollution and its impact on marine life and human health. Find out how to help.

AI-powered detection systems from Amazon Web Services will help The Ocean Cleanup pinpoint plastic hotspots and steer vessels to the most effective collection zones. Courtesy The Ocean Cleanup The ...

The good news is that, according to recent research in the journal Nature Geoscience, we’re dumping less plastic into the ocean than previously estimated. The bad news is that it’s still a dangerously ...

Interceptor 007 is a not-so-secret agent of trash collection at the mouth of a Los Angeles waterway. It's one of several barges belonging to The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit founded by 29-year-old ...

A new report has been released by Germany-based ocean plastic recovery startup CleanHub that highlights ocean plastic pollution this year, as well as a look into its complex origins and what the ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

Amid the layers of microbes surrounding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists have discovered a plastic-eating fungus called Parengyodontium album, which appears to be eating away at some of the ...