On September 8, a floating boom, 600 meters (1,968 feet) in length was towed from the San Francisco Bay to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, launching what is called a floating “Ocean Cleanup Array,” ...

Ocean currents concentrate plastic in five areas in the world: the subtropical gyres, also known as the world’s “ocean garbage patches”. There are currently over 5.0 trillion pieces of plastic in ...

At just 16 years old, Boyan Slat began working on what many saw as an unrealistic idea: a system that could remove most of the world’s floating ocean plastic. Within a few years, that school project ...

A nonprofit organization aimed at cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch made a stop in San Francisco on Friday to deliver a message. After six years of trying to find a solution to the garbage ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Far away from California's coast, where the Pacific Ocean currents swirl, the blue of the sea was replaced by fishing nets, buckets, buoys, laundry baskets and pieces of plastic that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...