So-called "ghost" fishing nets are awful things. Lost or forgotten during commercial fishing operations, they can drift in the ocean for years, indiscriminately catching marine life as they do. A newly-invented tag, however, may help keep that from happening.
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SodaStream is looking to play an active role in tackling the mounting problem of plastics in the ocean, starting with a pilot project testing a new device to collect marine waste from waters off the coast of Roatán, Honduras.
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Climeworks is a Swiss company at the vanguard of carbon capture technology, and having just completed a year-long pilot project collecting C02 at the world’s first negative emissions power plant, is rather optimistic about the way things are headed.
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As we start to really get a grasp on the magnitude of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, elsewhere in the ocean plastic waste is mounting on the shores of some of the most remote islands, with a new study revealing the true extent of the mess and the threat it poses to local species.
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Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has a knack for raising environmental awareness through spectacular and symbolic pieces of art, and his freshly launched Space Waste Lab might be his most impressive installation yet.
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A newly published special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that humanity must make rapid and unprecedented changes to all facets of society if it is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, and so mitigate the potentially devastating effects of global warming.
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Low-tech Magazine has rebuilt its website to be entirely solar powered, and is wilfully designed to go offline when conditions dictate. The new site has a much-reduced energy footprint, and is something of an exemplar in efficient website design.
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The Ocean Cleanup project has been experimenting with a new technique to fill in some of the blanks and has, what it says, is the first proof of concept for using a form of infrared imagery to quantify marine plastic pollution.
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The Earth’s spin naturally drifts on its axis over time, and that’s generally chalked up to the way mass is distributed and redistributed across the planet’s surface. Now, NASA scientists studying data gathered across the entire 20th century have identified three broad processes that play a part.
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After over a year since it dramatically broke loose from the Antarctic ice cap, one of the largest icebergs on record has finally set to sea thanks to strong southern spring winds that have freed the multi-trillion tonne ice cube.
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