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The Plastiki Floats!
I spent a recent afternoon at the marina in Sausalito aboard David de Rothschild’s just-launched Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran he plans on sailing from San Francisco to Sydney … very, very soon. A...
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Defining (and Recycling?) the Plastic Patch
No ocean story has gotten more attention in the past couple years than the big (size of Texas!) garbage patch swirling around the North Pacific. Discovered just over ten years ago by my friend Captain...
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5 Plastic Patches, Not Just 1
I’ve written about the garbage patch swirling around the North Pacific a dozen times. It’s big (the size of Texas?) and growing; now it’s clear that it is not alone, that there are other gyres, in...
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Where Is All that Oil Waste Going?
For weeks now we’ve seen hundreds, thousands of haz-matted workers bending over along beaches or hanging out of small boats attempting to clean up the mess that has begun to invade Louisiana’s beaches...
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Hawaii Landfill Spews Medical Waste into the Ocean
One of the (big) dirty secrets of ocean pollution is how much of the plastic, garbage and miscellaneous crap that ends up there blows or seeps in from landfills. That was emphasized last week in a most...
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Plastic Poisoning Taking Out Endangered Sea Turtles
A new study from researchers at the University of California Academy of Science and the University of British Columbia indicates that global sea turtle populations are mistakenly ingesting fatal...
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Universal/NBC Highlights OCEANS 8 Kayaking Films
If it’s spring where you live and you’ve spent much of the winter seemingly trapped indoors (as I have) it means now is the time to start thinking powerfully about getting … out there. Our friends at...
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Tsunami Debris: Dangerous Junk or Booty in Disguise?
Since leaking nuclear radiation is hard to visualize, the lasting images of Japan’s earthquake/tsunami are still those from its very first day: Walls of rushing seawater pushing cars and fishing boats...
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Trawling For Trash: EU To Pay Fishermen to Net Plastic
Paying fishermen to catch plastic. This could be the most novel and efficient pairing of protecting and cleaning up a natural resource yet dreamed up. Credit can’t be claimed by any NGO or think tank,...
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Oceans, the Lifeblood of the Planet
Another lovely, provocative day at the SLOWLIFE Symposium in the Maldives, as reported by its team: Surrounded by the deep blue of the Indian Ocean, the fate of the world’s seas has been a central...
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Trash Tracking
In my travels along the world’s coastlines I’ve seen thousands of miles of beaches nearly buried beneath plastic waste – bottles, beer crates, flip-flops, fishing cord, etc. – washed up from … well,...
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