"We need to take a lesson." Nonprofit shares time-lapse clip of how it removed 140 tons of garbage from river: 'Really puts [it] into perspective' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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

AquaOmega, a brand of Vivo Brands Inc., today announced the launch of the AquaOmega OneHealth Impact Initiative, a sustainability program created in partnership with 4ocean that links product sales to ...

Single-use plastics pose a major problem for the environment, especially our oceans. Did you know plastic detrimentally impacts about 700 marine species? By 2050, there could be more plastic, by ...

The recent headlines around the missing Malaysia Airlines jet caught my eye and not necessarily for the mystery of locating the plane, but for the ocean debris that has been throwing off search crews ...

The global nonprofit organization The Ocean Cleanup deployed its innovative river cleanup technology, called the Interceptor Original, in one of Bangkok's most polluted rivers earlier this year. Since ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could mean bad news for environmental doomsayers. Forget all those warnings about the million tons of plastic debris floating ...

Kristen Sarri, former president of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, appeared headed for confirmation as assistant secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Engineers will deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart ...