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Slat, Boyan, "How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves"
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
As a space where terrestrial jurisdiction did not apply, the ocean has often served as a repository for unwanted things, whether people or objects. This article traces the journeys of several ships and their cargos of toxic waste in the 1970s and 1980s.
This article charts the rise and fall of ocean incineration and describes how coastal communities and transnational organizations challenged it.