Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smart Grapple is capable of lifting individual items of trash weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds). - Andreas Schmitz/TUM ...

An autonomous underwater vehicle has begun a mission to circumnavigate the globe. Called Redwing, the submersible will collect data to support ocean and climate research. It launched last Friday (10 ...

Between 1950 and 2020, 32 million metric tons of plastic accumulated in the ocean, according to one estimate — the weight of over 200,000 blue whales. Without any additional action, that figure is ...