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 ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

approximately 80 percent of marine debris comes from land-based sources. The debris comes from a variety of sources, including trash from the street that is carried out to the ocean through storm ...

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. Dozens of ...

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 ...

The term "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" refers to a massive area more than 1.6 million square kilometers in size, but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents ...