A controversial bill in the North Carolina General Assembly that would ban shrimp trawling in inshore waters and offshore ...

Kia has clinched the Gold Award in the Environmental Category at the 2025 PR Awards Asia-Pacific for its innovative ...

After seeing the pain caused by a plastic straw becoming lodged in a sea turtle's nose, a global call to action was made to ban them.

THE vast waters surrounding the Philippines and the hundreds of thousands of people who depend on them for their livelihood ...

The Ocean Cleanup is calling on sailors out in the Pacific, anywhere between California and Hawaii this summer, to take part in ...

Some areas, like Gallants Channel in Beaufort, are particularly polluted because trash from the ocean and the Newport River meet at ... His most recent project was the Carteret County Trash Trawl. He ...

Since January 2024, the department has been working with 250 commercial trawlers to install onboard waste bins, enabling crews to bring their garbage back to shore rather ... and polythene waste out ...

Ocean Trash Catchers are nets that collect floating debris while ... A major benefit of using this solution is the minimised risk of catching marine life, as the trawl only extends 70cm into the water ...

But in five years, the daily bounty of ocean-floor catches from nearby ... Our field survey found that over 60 per cent of trawl landings consist of trash fish,” he said. Ms Chitra Devi G ...

Image: NOAA New research – which examines a variety of samples from trawls, aerial surveys and cleanup ... Instead, much of this trash lies insidiously within the ocean waters, dispersed over vast ...

Their systematic surveys between 2015 and 2022 provided invaluable insights into the plastic pollution crisis in the North Pacific Garbage Patch. The Ocean Cleanup collected data from 917 manta trawl ...

The study examines 917 manta trawl samples ... (35.3 million pounds) of trash from aquatic ecosystems around the world. Founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup now employs a broadly ...