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.

A Redditor asked a question about a Deadliest Catch episode that featured crew members littering into the ocean, prompting a ...

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 ...

It has strung a permanent trash net across one of those tributaries, in Tijuana, to catch plastic waste that’s floating to the ocean. Now they have funding to put up another.