A nonprofit group has removed over 17 million pounds of plastic trash from the Pacific Ocean — and they’re not done yet. The Ocean Cleanup is an organization that was founded in 2013 in the ...

The mission was simple: remove trash from the ocean. Instead, something valuable appeared in the sand. What looked like debris turned into a serious find. The dive shifted instantly from cleanup to ...

Environmentalists say that New Jersey’s beaches have come a long way since the troubled times of the late 1980s. An organization that helped to clean up the pollution at the Jersey Shore is restarting ...

Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit started in 2013 by then 18-year-old Boyan Slat of the Netherlands. He proposed and developed a number of skimmer-type devices to retrieve plastic floating in the ocean ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In this Oct. 22, 2019, photo, plastic and other debris sits on the beach on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas ...

Stillstrom, an offshore charging company recently launched by Maersk Supply Service, said Thursday it would collaborate with Port of Aberdeen on a project aimed at cutting emissions from vessels on ...

In the next month or so, Kia will begin offering an accessory for its EV3 subcompact electric crossover that will be made of recycled plastic scooped out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That's the ...

Cindy Zipf is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a ...