77 commercial fishermen conducted more than 690 ghost gear seizures, with the objects taken ashore either for reuse or recycling.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Researchers have been visiting locations in ...

Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and unidentifiable pieces of plastic that ...

For someone who gets violently seasick, Boyan Slat spends a lot of time thinking about the ocean. The Dutch inventor has designed the world’s first ocean plastic cleanup system but admits he won’t be ...

It’s a mass of garbage roughly as large as France that floats in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, formed over years as ocean currents gather plastics and other debris from around the world in ...