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What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and why are environmentalists racing to clean it up?

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

The man who wants to stop trash from flowing into the ocean

Boyan Slat has a plan to rid the ocean of plastic pollution, this coming El Niño could be a monster and more big stories ...
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‘For US$100 million a year, we can get clean oceans’: The Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat

The 31 year-old engineer responds to criticism that his non-profit focuses downstream of the bigger problem with a "quick fix ...

Scientists stunned: Our ocean trash is creating new ecosystems faster than we can clean them up

In the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the vast rotating current system between California and Hawaii, floating objects tend ...
Silicon Valley

Landfill that closed 47 years ago continues to leak trash into Pacific Ocean

For more than 20 years, Mussel Rock, a steep stretch of oceanfront land in northern San Mateo County with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and the Farallon Islands, was a garbage dump. Two ...
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San Gabriel River, LA River will get trash interceptors to combat ocean and beach pollution

Anytime it rains, trash comes flushing through storm drains and gutters, into rivers and downstream straight into the ocean and onto beaches. The picturesque beaches that Southern California is known ...