The Plastiki, a boat made entirely out recyclable plastics, set sail this Saturday from Sausalito Bay, near San Francisco. In the four days it has been at sea, the Plastiki has travelled two hundred ...
In a partly condemned Port Authority hangar on Pier 31 in San Francisco, just south of Fisherman's Wharf, David de Rothschild, a tall, bearded, 31-year-old Englishman, is standing on the deck of a ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Not all plastics are created equal – and to prove it, a rakish banking heir and a team of young adventurers have built a huge ship out of plastic. Called Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran's hull is made ...
On March 20, a very odd boat set sail from Sausalito, Calif., just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Destination: Sydney, Australia. This was the Plastiki, a vessel made entirely of plastic, including ...
Inmarsat and Stratos are sponsoring a catamaran made of reclaimed plastic bottles which is heading for Sydney on the final leg of a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Expedition leader David de ...
The world needs men and women who do great things: lead nations, invent new devices, discover miracle cures - all those things that make our lives better. But we also need adventurers, people who do ...
What do you do if you want to draw attention to the threats faced by the world’s oceans, in particular the huge amount of plastic waste that ends up in them? Easy, you sail across the Pacific Ocean, ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
David de Rothschild is an adventure environmentalist who has journeyed to the North and South Poles on foot–and holds the record for the fastest trip across the Greenland ice cap. In 2005 he launched ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Not since Jack London sailed out the Golden Gate on a boat of his own design a century ago, not since Amelia Earhart flew off from Oakland bound for around the world in 1937, not in years has there ...
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