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

A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes ...

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 ...

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 ...

A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly ... of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii.

"This discarded trash had managed to reach an unsullied part of our world before we actually did — a symbol of how deeply and ...

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 ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

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All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...