The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP ... The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between 2015 and ...

These eco-friendly water bottles could help divert plastic from the oceans Humans have dumped so much trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii that this area--known as the Great Pacific ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Now, scientists have developed a model that tracks and forecasts the location of the watery trash heap as it floats in the ...

These negotiations represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to end the plastics crisis, and we cannot afford to fail.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, around 1,200 miles from shore, sits a giant vortex of trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The site is home to more than 1.8 trillion pieces of ...

trash. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928 metres to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest ...

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