Boyan Slat is a 23-year-old Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who started building engineering projects since when he was 2 and first truly impressed the world by securing a Guinness World Record at the age of 14 when launched 213 water rockets simultaneously.  Now, Slat is aiming for a much bigger

Update: COAST GUARD OFFICER SAYS GULF PLATFORM FIRE SUPPRESSED   The US Coast Guard said on Thursday morning it was responding to a fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. A Coast Guard news release says the fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. Thursday on an oil

Montreal-based photographer Benjamin Von Wong (previously here and here) is fascinated with water, but the artist kept his lense above the surface for his latest project Mermaids Hate Plastic to highlight a serious problem. Show Full Text Statistically, an average American uses about 167 plastic

Two Australians, Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, created the Seabin, a floating rubbish bin that can collect plastic bottles, paper, oil, fuel, and detergent floating in the ocean. It was built as a cheap and low maintenance alternative to “trash boats.” “One of the goals is to make the Seabin

By Anne Cacherell Adidas, in partnership with Parley for the Oceans, a New York-based multidisciplinary group dedicated to raise awareness to protect the fragility of the oceans from major threats and destruction, formulated a concept that battles one of the planet’s major problems, ocean