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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fun (well, not so fun, actually) fact: the largest accumulation zone of trash on earth is 1.6 million square meters. That’s the ...

In an effort to combat global marine pollution, the Dubai Investment Fund (DIF), a leading global investment firm, is actively investing in projects focused on cleaning the oceans of plastic waste.

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 ...

Close to 2 million metric tons of plastic enters the oceans every year from beaches and waterways, according to The Ocean Cleanup Project. Much of that plastic is single-use beverage bottles, cups, ...

There’s always some controversy over ocean plastic — such as who is responsible for it and what to do about it — but everyone agrees that plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean. Or do they? I was floored ...

“Modeling predicts we need around 10 full-size systems to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. “After fleets of systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The ...