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When self-described “ocean custodian” Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of ...

The Ocean Cleanup will make waves on Thursday as it deploys its first trash Interceptor Original in the United States in hopes of further shrinking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by catching trash ...

First system to be tested at sea, hopes to help "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, unveiled its North ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

Environmental experts have long warned that ocean currents in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea play a major role in ...

Many of us do volunteer activities that include trash collection, recycling and beach cleanups. Lately, our colleagues in Hong Kong cleaned up and helped to record the waste collected on the shoreline ...

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” The quote by British explorer Robert Swan was clipped to one of many flourishing vegetable and flower beds in the ...