Boyan Slat is not a typical 20-year-old. After the Dutch native went on a diving trip in Greece where he saw more plastic than marine life, he resolved to do something about it. Slat's ocean cleaning ...

As an innovative solution to the alarming issue of plastic pollution in our oceans, the ocean cleanup drone has the potential to transform the way we handle waste. This remarkable machine is capable ...

The oceans have a plastic debris problem, and it’s growing by 8 million tons a year. Three years ago, a Dutch teenager named Boyan Slat garnered global accolades for a solution he devised for a high ...

Canada’s first marine waste recycling program has been turning abandoned fishing gear and other plastic waste from the ocean ...

Razer has announced that it is partnering with marine waste cleaning enterprise, Clearbot, in celebration of World Oceans Day. This partnership will see the two companies team up to create an ...

In the Cengkareng Drain, a river that runs through the megacity of Jakarta, Indonesia, tons of plastic trash flows to the ocean each year. But now a new solar-powered robot called the Interceptor is ...

The first-ever machine to clean up the planet’s largest chunk of ocean plastic is due to set sail. It’s heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between California and Hawaii, where it will ...

It will be too late for the Olympic games – but garbage be gone thereafter. An underwater bin that draws plastic detritus out of the sea has reached the final stages of research, and should be ...

On a Wednesday afternoon in a sprawling lot on a former naval air station in Alameda, California, across the bay from San Francisco, workers are welding a massive black tube together. The tube–roughly ...