Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic flow into the world’s oceans. What often looks like floating debris to ...

The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that researchers ...

How we go about cleaning up the mass of plastic pollution in the ocean is a mind-bogglingly difficult question, and one that will take a range of innovative approaches to solve. A new study has cast ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Editor's note: The video above is from April 2018, before the effort to clean up the patch began After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the ...

Scientists now estimate that around 8M tons of plastic waste pour into the ocean every year, forming swirling gyres of debris ...

Imagine you're passing a fast-food restaurant and you smell hamburger on the grill. You're hungry, so you pull in and eat one ... and the foam box it comes in. That's apparently what's happening with ...

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS >> Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage ...

Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in the ...

After racing a yacht from London to Rio de Janeiro, adventurer Dhruv Boruah learned that another team taking part in that same race had come across two turtles tangled in plastic in the middle the ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Editor's note: The video above is from April 2018, before the effort to clean up the patch began After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the ...