While diving to remove trash and debris from the ocean floor, the cleaner begins uncovering more than just pollution. Among the discarded items, several valuable objects are discovered, adding up to ...

NORFOLK, Va. — National Clean Beach Week comes at the perfect time after Independence Day festivities left Virginia beaches littered with trash. The day after the Fourth of July, instead of sleeping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of volunteers collected more than 2,000 lbs. of trash from Kingman Island along the banks of the Anacostia River on Saturday. The nonprofit Ocean Conservancy says 287 volunteers ...

Dutch inventor Boyan Slat has developed a system that uses ocean currents to collect plastic waste. Experts consider this ...

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

Between 1950 and 2020, 32 million metric tons of plastic accumulated in the ocean, according to one estimate — the weight of over 200,000 blue whales. Without any additional action, that figure is ...