In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - An environmental campaign seeks to help keep our beach towns clean. The nonprofit organization, Plastic Ocean Project, launched its “Sustainable Summer” initiative in July.

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

On Kayak Island, off the south-central coast of Alaska, a team of researchers, students and conservationists combs the shoreline. The team finds a message in a bottle—a rare discovery—but the bottle ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

Nokia has unveiled plans to deploy private wireless connectivity, network Edge equipment, and analytics for The Ocean Cleanup project. The vendor announced the plans last week as part of efforts to ...

At least 15 persons with disabilities (PWDs) who are members of the Philippine Accessible Disability Service (PADS) Dragon ...

There’s always some controversy over ocean plastic — such as who is responsible for it and what to do about it — but everyone agrees that plastic doesn’t belong in the ocean. Or do they? I was floored ...