The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Transforming Into a Wildlife Hotspot — And That's a Problem

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now so packed with long-lasting plastic that dozens of coastal species are living, breeding and spreading on it — forming a new 'neopelagic' ecosystem that could ...

This unmanned underwater robot can remove ocean trash

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have developed an automated diving robot that can detect and ...
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Trash collecting devices in rivers chip away at world's ocean plastic problem

BALTIMORE — Floating fences in India. Whimsical water- and solar-driven conveyor belts with googly eyes in Baltimore. Rechargeable aquatic drones and a bubble barrier in The Netherlands. These are ...
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Ocean Cleanup introduces technology that promises to clean up a third of the world's ocean trash in new TED Talk

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 ...
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This Is When Dumping Garbage in the Ocean Is Actually a Good Thing

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Recently much attention has focused on the problem of ...