Garbage dumped in the ocean deliberately or washed into it as a result of storms can take years to break down. Plastic waste turns into microplastic particles that get into the food chain and work ...

You realize the extent of the pollution that we caused is so vast that we created this garbage patch in the middle of the open ocean far away from human beings." The Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre – the biggest of five huge ...

Campaigners want a vast area of floating garbage in the ocean to be the world's newest country—and they've already got more would-be citizens than some real countries. Al Gore is on board as the ...

It turns out a test project launched three months ago designed to collect ocean trash hasn't collected much of it at all. In early September, a ship headed to an area of the Pacific Ocean known as ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.

A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds. Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world.

The California coast, considered by so many to be a treasure, is now struggling with the threat of pollution. In Los Angeles County, an innovative device is collecting trash to stop waste from ...

Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely huge area, comparable to ...

Illustration: David Fang An 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean is an environmental disaster. It is also teeming with life. Biologists who fished toothbrushes ...

The Ocean Cleanup will make waves on Thursday as it deploys its first trash Interceptor Original in the United States in hopes of further shrinking the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by catching ...