The prototype floating “Ocean Cleanup Array” will be deployed about 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) off the Dutch coast in the North Sea where it will stay for one year. There the oceanic barrier will ...
What started as a simple ocean cleanup dive quickly turned eye-opening. Beneath the beautiful blue water, we discovered just how much debris is hiding below the surface. Every item removed tells a ...
Oil spills and plastic waste are polluting our oceans – destroying marine life and contaminating beaches. Now scientists are exploring how they can get microbes to degrade these substances more ...
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In Los Angeles, in Mumbai, in Kuala Lumpur and in several other cities around the planet, autonomous plastic-eating robots are taking over the waterways. They are, in one form or other, chomping up ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a “global catastrophe” as he opened the first UN ocean conference. The five-day ...
With the invention of an automatic, nonstop ocean water filter, cleaner oceans may be one step closer. Every year, 1.8 billion pounds of plastic gets dumped in the ocean. The tsunami of plastic waste ...