The new design aims to show that "discarded material can be restructured into public infrastructure,” the architect told ...

Russian scientists have proposed a new way to detect plastic debris hidden under the surface of the ocean. The method is ...

The ocean works quietly every day to protect life on Earth. It absorbs heat from the atmosphere, stores massive amounts of ...

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

Far from the shipping corridors and crowded industrial coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere, the South Atlantic Ocean ...

Maddie Kaufman, Debris Free Oceans’ program director, holds up trash she recovered by the Nixon Beach sandbar off Key Biscayne. Working with the Aspen Institute, the city of Miami Beach and Deco ...

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A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the vast rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists’ attention. Working together, they linked the ...

In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with ...