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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....
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...
Once Devastated Pacific Reefs See Amazing Rebirth, Recovering With ‘Shocking Speed’
As remote as they were beautiful, the coral reefs around the 5 volcano tips making up the Southern Line Islands dazzled National Geographc explorers...
Quarter-Million Pounds of Plastic Cleared From Great Pacific Garbage Patch in Dutch Milestone
Last year, wiz kid Boyan Slat announced that "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned," after a prototype cleaning system proved successful.
Since...
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...
83-Year-old Sets World Record Sailing Alone Across the Pacific Without Stopping
A Japanese man has once again completed his favorite pastime of sailing across the Pacific Ocean without stopping.
The undeterrable Kenichi Horie did it once...
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...
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...
20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’
"The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned," announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for...
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...
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...
Fog-Catching Towers Could Supply Water to the World’s Driest Megacity Using The Ocean Air
How can a megacity find water for 10 million people if it exists in the desert? Fog-catching nets, erected on hills over the city...
Coldplay Adopts a Barge That Plucks Plastic Out of the River –Before it Flows to the Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup project launched by a Dutch youth a decade ago to tackle the Pacific garbage patch has in recent years begun to...
These Sunglasses Are Made From the First Ever Batch of Plastic Waste Recovered by the Ocean Cleanup Project
Since Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup recovered the first load of garbage from the GPGP, they have managed to turn the trash into treasure.
Two South African Women Take On Mission to Tackle Plastic Along One of Worst Rivers For Ocean-Bound Pollution
Two South African women and their Sunshine Cleaning volunteer group are cleaning up river banks in Blue Downs near Cape Town, to keep plastic out of oceans.
Grupo Hawaiano Bate Récord de Recolección y Extracción de Plástico del Gran Parche de Basura del Pacífico
El Instituto Ocean Voyages Institute hizo historia esta semana al quitar 103 toneladas de redes de pescar y plásticos de consumo de el gran parche de basura del Océano Pacífico.
Hawaii Group Sets Record For Largest Haul of Plastic Removed From The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ocean Voyages Institute made history this week, removing 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
10 Types of Apples Thought to Be Extinct From Pioneer Days Are Discovered in the Pacific Northwest
A pair of retirees have been sleuthing in the Pacific Northwest to find lost varieties of apple trees on forgotten homesteads—and have already discovered 23.
Los Chicos que Venden Pulseras hechas de Plástico Oceánico están Cerca de Llegar a las 8 Millones de Libras de Desperdicio del Océano
La empresa que vende los brazaletes de plástico a $20 hechos de plástico recogido del océano está expandiendo sus operaciones a Guatemala y América Central.