As the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, Slat’s goal is to return our oceans to their original, clean state before 2040. To accomplish this, two things must be done.

Every year, we throw 300 million tons of plastic waste, which ends up in rivers and oceans, and then enters into our bodies.

For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast marine debris vortex, is being tackled by The Ocean Cleanup’s innovative technologies. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson explains.

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

It's World Ocean Day, a day for raising awareness about mankind's impact on the ocean. Here are ways you can help protect the seas.

But what the discovery of this plastic-eating fungus does mean is that we may be able to find a better way to clean up the plastics infesting our oceans.

Among a myriad of solutions and strategies suggested and followed to aid this challenge has been a fleet of underwater robots that operate to clean up parts of the world's oceans.

California environmental advocates are urging water regulators to require sewage treatment plants to clean up pollution that is contributing to ocean acidification.

We hope that underwater robots could one day assist in cleaning up our oceans." Jellyfish-Bots are capable of moving and trapping objects without physical contact, operating either alone or with ...