The Ocean Cleanup team has been researching and testing the pipe for the past five years. In 2013, the project raised over $2 million through crowdfunding and has since raised over $30 million.

Volunteers collected hundreds of pounds of trash from Ocean View beaches during National Clean Beach Week following Fourth of ...

Getting clean water from the sea, ... And given global climate change and the world's growing population, the costly process of desalination -- turning ocean or brackish water into clean, ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

The Ocean Cleanup system is a U-shaped barrier with a net-like skirt that hangs below the surface of the water. It moves with the current and collects faster moving plastics as they float by.

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 ...

The Illinois researchers have been fine-tuning the battery-based desalination process for years. Scientists take step forward on quest to easily turn ocean water into clean drinking water — here ...

The ocean’s plastic trash problem often starts in rivers: Every year, as much as 2.4 million metric tons of plastic flows from rivers to the sea, the nonprofit estimates. Most of that trash ...

The main problem is that not all ocean waste floats at the top of the water for easy collecting; according to 2014 research, just a tiny percent—269,000 tonnes (in the form of about 5.25 ...

The Ocean City, Maryland, mayor says the town has never had to close beaches due to water safety or quality issues, ... Ocean City’s ocean water is clean and safe: Mayor Richard Meehan.

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 ...