Efforts to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch might be a mistake. Here is why experts say skimming the surface could be ...

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 ...

Most people know plastic pollution is bad news. But a small group of scientists says that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup efforts.

A collaboration between The Ocean Cleanup and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will leverage advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to clean the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the craziest ideas just happen to be the best. Fire whirls burn oil spills faster and cleaner than fire pools, a ...

Gianni Valenti is the president of French NGO Gaia First, which is an organization working to end plastic pollution in coastal communities around the world. He’s also a dad. And it was his daughter ...

A fuzzy monster foot slipper, half a Christmas wreath, a pair of Dracula teeth, not to mention the literal proverbial kitchen sink, were just a few of the thousands of pieces of garbage picked off New ...

Amid the layers of microbes surrounding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists have discovered a plastic-eating fungus called Parengyodontium album, which appears to be eating away at some of the ...