For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Ocean Cleanup introduces technology that promises to clean up a third of the world's ocean trash in new TED Talk. Story by Kamrin Baker • 2mo.

I saw kelp rafts about 200 miles off the coast of California. They supported a bird population of what appeared to be sparrows. They were living off the flies that also populated the kelp.

It’s a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, though, Matthias Egger, the head of environmental and social affairs at The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit ...

77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device. The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor on Friday, May 5, 2023, at the end of its first storm season.

A young entrepreneur is working on a large-scale solution to cleaning most of the world’s ocean trash. Boyan Slat started The Ocean Cleanup project in his home country of the Netherlands when he ...

In Los Angeles County, an innovative device is collecting trash to stop waste from reaching the ocean. This “trash interceptor,” stationed in Venice Beach, is one of only 11 in the world ...

Study co-author Richard Thompson of Plymouth University in the U.K. told USA TODAY we should focus 95% of our attention and energy on reducing the flow of plastic trash into the ocean and only 5% ...

Ocean trash can now be tracked from space. Supercomputers helped unlock a satellite's ability to monitor the mountains of floating plastic. By Andrew Paul. Published Jun 17, ...