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Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara: Explore Ecology is proud to announce that the 41st Annual Coastal Cleanup Day will be held on Saturday, ...

10 Aquapreneurs selected from over 270 applicants Winners showcased innovations from PFAS destruction, household filtration to nature-based water treatment Financial support of CHF 1.75 million ...

Ingenuity from UK and US universities has led to the development of next-generation solutions to eliminating plastic waste — particularly, in tricky marine environments. University of Edinburgh ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Surfrider Kauai just completed its most difficult and fulfilling cleanups of the year which removed 9,000 pounds of marine debris from Kauai’s remote coastlines. Operation Airlift ...

The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently floating in it, ...

The dispersal of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima-Daiichi reactor disaster site to the Pacific Ocean is “in line with international safety standards” according to a task force set up by the ...

After evaluating over 270 submissions from around 60 nations, 10 Aquapreneurs from 9 countries were chosen for their innovative solutions in the freshwater sector. This year’s winners, termed ‘UpLink ...