Environmental News
Barry’s Baleen Will Scour the Sea
Barry Spanier has his sights set on one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time: plastics in the ocean. Spanier conceived of a boat called the "Baleen" (also known as Ships that Scour the Sea), named after filter-feeder whales.
Ocean Cleanup, Randall Reeves, Lia Ditton
A Setback for the Ocean Cleanup
After steaming out of the Bay in late September with the ambition of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Ocean Cleanup project has suffered a major setback and is heading back to Alameda. “Due More »
Cleaning Up the Coast and Beyond
The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001 left San Francisco Bay on Saturday.
© John D. Henry
The Ocean Cleanup Project, which we’ve covered in the past in Latitude 38, was deployed on Saturday. More »
Kudos
While we seek results we applaud progress. Even with our best intentions and awareness of things like the Texas-sized Pacific garbage patch it remains hard to eliminate our single-use plastic water bottle habit. More »
Marc Benioff Supports Ocean Cleanup
In the 2013 Transpac John Sangmeister’s Long Beach-based ORMA 73 trimaran Tritium Lending Club came up just 2.5 hours short of besting the record after at least six collisions with debris in the ocean. More »
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