Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent of the oil slicking the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. That means that sunlight plays a bigger role ...

exposure to UV radiation and the constant movement of the waves causing tension and compression on the material, he said. Critics have suggested that The Ocean Cleanup has taken up money and ...

but The Ocean Cleanup responded by telling Wired that the high-density polyethylene plastic used in their tubes can reflect UV radiation. Slat's confidence in his design hasn't wavered ...

The Ocean Cleanup is dedicated to removing plastic from the world's oceans. It's a formidable task: National Geographic estimates that 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic, the equivalent of 269,000 ...

"There's no question that the radiation levels have decreased compared to 2011," he says. Some of that drop is due to the natural radioactive decay, but there has also been a huge cleanup effort.

The latest problem has been a break that is allowing heavily contaminated water flow directly into the ocean, a leak that ... in the area around the damage, radiation levels have reached the ...

But the effects of radiation poisoning eventually dissipated and Braverman ... If Chernobyl was all about producing energy in an unsafe way, I wondered whether there was a cleaner way to harness ...

Interceptor 007 Launched in Ballona Creek, Contributing to a Cleaner Playa del Rey Photo Credit: The Ocean Cleanup® & Los Angeles County Public Works (CNW Group/Primo Brands Corporation ...

This event is unprecedented in its total release of radioactive contamination into the ocean ... O’Brien’s piece on Fukushima radiation contamination and cleanup later this week on the ...

Eileen Falkenberg-Hull leads the Autos team at Newsweek. She has written extensively about the auto industry for U.S. News & World Report, CarGurus, Trucks.com, AutomotiveMap, and American City ...