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 ...

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 ...

Ocean trash can now be tracked from space Ocean trash can now be tracked from space. By Andrew Paul. NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite sends back its first images of a changing world NASA’s ...

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.

A Wavy Boats video of a group of partiers dumping two garbage cans full of trash into the ocean while leaving the Boca Bash then returning to the party has been making the rounds online and now ...

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.

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.

Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw its ...