AI can now detect pollution before it spreads, and might inform governments and NGOs like The Ocean Cleanup.

A new plan aims to clean more than 80% of the North Pacific Garbage Patch - the ocean's largest floating plastic garbage ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

A ship on Saturday will start towing a long device from Northern California more than 1,000 miles out to sea to begin scooping up a massive heap of trash that’s estimated to weigh 88,000 tons. It may ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Researchers have been visiting locations in ...