The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Hawaii Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research Bounty Project has removed more than 185,000 pounds of derelict ...

commercial fishermen conducted more than 690 ghost gear seizures, with the objects taken ashore either for reuse or recycling.

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

Nokia has unveiled plans to deploy private wireless connectivity, network Edge equipment, and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup project. The vendor announced the plans last week as part of efforts to ...

On Kayak Island, off the south-central coast of Alaska, a team of researchers, students and conservationists combs the shoreline. The team finds a message in a bottle—a rare discovery—but the bottle ...

You’ve heard of the North Atlantic Garbage Patch? It’s essentially a miles-wide swath of plastic crap swirling in the Atlantic Ocean gyre, possibly for eternity. Depressing, right? Today’s Barefoot ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- What started as a love for surfing, turned into a mission to protect the ocean that inspires him. “It only makes sense that I give back to what brings so much inspiration to ...