ALAMEDA, Calif. (KGO) -- Call it the world's biggest garbage dump: the swirling mess of plastic debris in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Now, there's an effort afoot to make it vanish, launching ...

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.

In an effort to combat global marine pollution, the Dubai Investment Fund (DIF), a leading global investment firm, is actively investing in projects focused on cleaning the oceans of plastic waste.

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 ...

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 ...

Close to 2 million metric tons of plastic enters the oceans every year from beaches and waterways, according to The Ocean Cleanup Project. Much of that plastic is single-use beverage bottles, cups, ...

Automotive News Video: Kia partnership with Ocean Cleanup Kia will begin offering an accessory for the EV3 made of recycled plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The automaker partners with ...