When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

Comics artist Pete Friedrich, a comics packager and editor of the 2004 comics anthology Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America (Chronicle), has created Foamy and Leafy, a self-published ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life. Scientists warn that this hidden pollution, dominated by plastics and ghost ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...

KAILUA, Hawaii (Island News) -- Inside a Windward Oʻahu warehouse, piles of trash cover the floor, fishing nets, oyster spacers, toothbrushes, toys, even mannequin heads and duck decoys. It may look ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once -- not yet at least -- ...

First system to be tested at sea, hopes to help "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, unveiled its North ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor uses imaging spectroscopy and spectral libraries to support large-scale tracking of plastic and other marine debris from space.