The Ocean Cleanup project, founded with the vision of clearing the world’s oceans of plastic, has designed a 600-meter-long barrier with a three-meter-deep net, ostensibly to collect plastic passively ...

In the northern Pacific Ocean, two sky-blue ships are sailing parallel to one another, several hundred meters apart. Pulled behind them is a giant U-shaped barrier, which almost looks like a fishing ...

Imagine you’re on a small boat in the middle of the open ocean, surrounded by what looks like a raft of plastic. Now flip the whole world upside down. You remain comfortably attached to your seat—the ...

Neuston: Living Among Plastic Debris in the Open Ocean With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the ...

Sitting just below our ocean’s surface is a host of often overlooked organisms; ones who help connect our world’s wide variety of oceanic habitats. They are “neuston” (named from the Greek word υεω ...

I am deeply concerned that a project intending to collect plastic from the ocean’s surface, known as The Ocean Cleanup, will sweep up countless floating marine animals–collectively called the ...

Plastics tend to break down into microplastics rather than biodegrade (though there are biodegradable plastics as well). Another issue is the amount of plastic entering the oceans: approximately 11 ...

The open ocean and the far reaches of outer space have much in common. Stretching in their enormity from horizon to horizon, these unknowable expanses are ruled by such extreme forces that the ...

A team of researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. has found that in addition to human garbage, the North Pacific "garbage patch" also has an abundance of neuston organisms. In their paper posted on the ...

A BUNGLING ocean cleanup operation has been accused of KILLING marine animals and destroying a fragile ecosystem in an attempt to sweep the sea free of plastic. Top scientist Rebecca Helm claims The ...