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Hurricane Helene cleanup crews are scrambling in Florida — but time is running out. That makes Milton more dangerous.
Hurricane Milton is bearing down on Florida, and the region is still racing to clean up from Helene…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Visualizing beloved aquatic animals when we reach for plastic might just help us use less of it and protect our oceans
New research shows that photos of animals above recycling bins appeared to reduce people's behavior…
Tim Paradis
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Package deal: Businesses and environmental groups pushed for a Colorado tax that will fund recycling of bottles and containers
Colorado has become the third state to enact a law that will tax bottles, food wrappers, and other …
Catherine Boudreau
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A half-mile plastic-trapping device in the Pacific caught 64,000 pounds of trash - including a fridge, mannequin, and toilet seats
A new device built by the nonprofit The Ocean Cleanup brought back 64,000 pounds of plastic from th…
Aria Bendix
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A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific - proof that ocean garbage can be cleaned
The Ocean Cleanup, the group behind the device, thinks 10 such installations could clean 50% of the…
Aria Bendix
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Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, to speak at the Business Insider Global Trends Festival 2020
Slat will be on stage at Business Insider's virtual event in October for his talk "The Largest Clea…
Business Insider
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is actually a unique ocean ecosystem teeming with sea creatures that cling to the plastic trash
A coauthor of a new study that found coastal species of sea life were living on plastic in the open…
Kelsey Vlamis
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US military atomic cleanup crews were sent out in the wake of American nuclear testing, and many paid a heavy price, veterans say
One veteran told Insider that exposure to radioactive material could come from anywhere, like eatin…
Jake Epstein
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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is running into problems in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Slat's 2,000-foot-long device, System 001, recently spent four weeks in the Great Pacific Garbage P…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is still leaking plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By the end of November, Slat's organization, The Ocean Cleanup, released an update saying they had …
Aria Bendix,Peter Kotecki,Pet…
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A giant ocean clean-up device meant to scoop plastic out of the Pacific has broken, and is being towed back to land
On December 8, Slat said plastic could be escaping from the device because the sea's current was wa…
Bill Bostock,Bill Bostock
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The massive ocean cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old broke down in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and returned to shore. Here's what went wrong.
In 2013, 18-year-old entrepreneur Boyan Slat set out to tackle this problem by launching The Ocean …
Aria Bendix,Aylin Woodward
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Dead fish and birds are washing up on the coast of Southern California after more than 125,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean
The oil spill spanned 13-square-miles into the water, prompting city officials to close the beaches…
Lauren Frias
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A pollution disaster as the stranded Japanese oil tanker off the pristine coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean splits apart
A huge cleanup operation had been underway in an attempt to pump some of the oil out of the tanker …
Sophia Ankel
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A new version of the massive plastic cleanup device invented by a 24-year-old is returning to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The first test will involve attaching a sea anchor that decelerates the speed of the system. If tha…