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Ocean Cleanup Hits Milestone of 220 Tons Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch (Watch)
The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch organization currently tackling the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), has just reached a milestone of 220 tons of plastic...
500 Baby Sharks to be Released in Unprecedented Rewilding of the Ocean
Out in the wilds of Indonesia, zebra sharks are extremely rare. Overhunted, these striped bottom dwellers were at risk of going extinct.
Now though, an...
8th Annual Ocean Conference Raises $20 Billion, And Pledges For Marine Protection
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
International delegates attending the eighth annual Our Ocean Conference in Panama March 2-3 have pledged billions to protect the world’s oceans....
The Fascinating and Brilliant Woman Who Mapped the Secrets of the Ocean Floor to Upend Scientific Thought
As massive a project as it would see to be now, once upon a time humanity needed to formulate the theory of...
Ocean Cleanup Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Massive Plastic Pollution Cleanup
The co-founder of Airbnb.org has just donated $25 million to support the Dutch nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup as they prepare to assemble and deploy...
Australia’s Ocean Kelp Forest is Growing at Light Speed–Rivaling the Mighty Amazon for Absorbing CO2
Great forests of ocean kelp were found in a recent study to be between 4 and 11-times more productive than the most productive crops...
Floating Drones Are Swallowing Tons of Plastic Waste Before it Reaches Ocean
From Chennai to Trentino alto Adige to Baltimore, inventors are churning out methods of stopping plastic pollution from entering the ocean by picking it...
Scottish Islanders Save Couple’s Wedding Across the Ocean After Nightmare Airport Saga of Lost Luggage
A wedding nightmare wound up turning into a Celtic dream when, after a plane-load of problems, the local community on the majestic Isle of...
World’s First Ocean-Assisted Carbon Removal Plant Launched in Hawaii
A company in middle of the Pacific has created a unique system that takes advantage of existing infrastructure to pull carbon from the ocean.
The...
John Kerry’s Global Ocean Conference Raises 400+ Commitments Worth $16 Billion to Protect Ocean Health
The seventh annual Our Ocean Conference concluded recently with the announcement a grand tally of 410 commitments to protect the the oceans and the...
Pluto Has Giant Ice Volcanoes that Could Hint at Existence of an Underground Ocean With Life
As spacecraft New Horizons recently sauntered past Pluto, images sent back to Earth made their way into the hands of a team that confirmed...
100 Nations Take Action To Save Oceans from Illegal Fishing and Plastic Pollution
Representatives from more than 100 countries arrived last week in France for a summit on protecting oceans from pollution, plastic, and overfishing.
The nation which...
Watch This Massive Ocean Sunfish Swim With Paddle Boarders Off the California Coast
When one sees a dorsal fin out on the water, only the calm and the eagle-eyed don't immediately think "shark." So it was with...
This ‘Floating Continent’ Could Collect and Recycle Plastic from the Ocean in Future
A large, self-sustaining, floating research lab as big as an island could be the next big thing in ocean cleanup.
The 8th Continent, as it's...
New Solution to Ridding Oceans of Microplastics Uses Acoustic Waves
Filtering microplastics from polluted water using acoustic waves is the new solution to cleaning up our oceans, according to new research.
Microplastics are released into...
Most CO2 From Australia’s Megafires Has Been Offset by Algal Blooms Formed By Ash That Settled in the Ocean
When 715 million metric tons of carbon dioxide was coughed up into the atmosphere from the massive 2019-20 wildfires in Australia, scientists feared global...
Mussels Can Help Filter Microplastics Out of Our Oceans Without Any Harm to the Molluscs
Instead of shelling out for a water filtration plant, mussels' constant filter feeding is being tested as a potential wide-scale application for microplastic clean-up...
Endangered Humpback Whales Gain New Protections in Pacific Ocean From the U.S
The U.S. administration has announced it will be officially protecting 116,098 square nautical miles of the Pacific Ocean as critical habitat for three populations...
‘The Manta’ Sailing Vessel is Designed to Feed on Plastic Waste for Power – While Cleaning Oceans
A professional yacht racer in France, annoyed by the constant sightings of floating mats of plastic garbage in coastal waters, has designed an ocean-cleaning...
Australia Announces $100 Million Initiative to Protect Our Oceans
Australia last week committed $100 million to ocean conservation in an effort to protect ‘blue carbon’ environments and reduce emissions.
Uniquely suited to care about...