The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely huge area, comparable to ...

And today, so many of those innovations are laser-focused on the environment: As climate concerns only intensify ... The first bot sorts trash by blowing air on the recyclable items, pushing ...

And yet there’s a key difference: Ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far. To do something about it, we don’t have to remake ...

Around 100 billion plastic beverage containers are sold in the United States each year — much of which ends up in landfills and waterways, polluting the environment and endangering wildlife. Studies ...

The hidden way commercial fishing adds to climate change. By Lauren Leffer Published Mar 28, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Image: Johner Images/Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Terms ...

That was David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii, talking about a new potential underwater solution to climate change. The United Nations says the ocean is the biggest ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping ...

a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the ocean in the name of stopping climate change. Proposed rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for environmentalists ...