AI can now detect pollution before it spreads, and might inform governments and NGOs like The Ocean Cleanup.

A new plan aims to clean more than 80% of the North Pacific Garbage Patch - the ocean's largest floating plastic garbage ...

With the organization’s technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.

The recent headlines around the missing Malaysia Airlines jet caught my eye and not necessarily for the mystery of locating the plane, but for the ocean debris that has been throwing off search crews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ship tows The Ocean Cleanup's first buoyant trash-collecting device into the Pacific Ocean from the San Francisco Bay in 2018.

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Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and unidentifiable pieces of plastic that ...

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly every day cargo ships arrive here in the Bay Area, carrying everything from cars to consumer goods. But one ship that just docked in Sausalito is delivering cargo ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

Clean Ocean Action has been hosting beach cleanups, collecting data and advocating for legislative changes for over 40 years.

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 ...