A multimillion-dollar floating boom designed to corral plastic debris littering the Pacific Ocean deployed from San Francisco Bay on Saturday as part of a larger high-stakes and ambitious undertaking.

The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic After several false starts, Boyan Slat's device is working as intended in the Pacific Garbage Patch. IMPACT ...

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here’s where a lot of it ends up. Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo ...

The Ocean Cleanup device is finally catching plastic. After several false starts, Boyan Slat's device is working as intended in the Pacific Garbage Patch.

The MV X-Press Pearl, which was carrying chemicals, sank after catching fire in 2021. The disaster led to the death of ...

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The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch garbage before it ...

When plastic ends up in the ocean, ... Most plastics are small fragments that escape nets or which can only be collected with considerable animal 'by-catch'," says co-author Dr Melanie Bergmann ...