Ocean trash can now be tracked from space. Supercomputers helped unlock a satellite's ability to monitor the mountains of floating plastic. By Andrew Paul. Published Jun 17, 2024 2:42 PM EDT.

Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a ...

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...

77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device. The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor on Friday, May 5, 2023, at the end of its first storm season.

When a plastic bag is swept down a D.C. storm drain, its final destination could be the Atlantic Ocean. After flowing into a local waterway, such as Rock Creek or the Potomac, it can wash out to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one.

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

There's an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash in the garbage patch, according to Conservation.org, which also projects that by 2050, the mass of ocean trash from plastic will outweigh its fish.

While trash still builds up inland and flows to the ocean following storms, there has been progress, she said. “The first flush this year, it was nothing compared to that,” she said. “I hope ...