On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there was more.

In 2024 The Ocean Cleanup reports that they've removed over 24 million pounds of trash from the world's oceans and waterways. Needless to say, that's a staggeringly impressive number. "This total ...

Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list ...

DR DIVA AMON:The deep sea is absolutely the last unexplored frontier on our planet. The ocean floor is actually less well-mapped than the surface of Mars, Venus and the Moon. DR DIVA AMON ...

Currently, trash boats patrol harbors and marinas and ... Two Australian surfers found an innovative way to clean up the ocean: ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

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An application submitted to the UN on World Ocean’s Day asks for ‘The Trash Isles’ to be recognised as an official country. Climate change campaigner and former US Vice President Al Gore has been ...

A new study has found out which countries are the largest contributors of plastic waste entering oceans. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: Scripps Institution of Oceanography/AP ...

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...