In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

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 ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

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 ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

When plastic ends up in the ocean, it gradually weathers and disintegrates ... to those found in one of the world's largest known garbage patches. The researchers highlight that plastics are ...

Like the 11 million metric tons of plastic that enter the ocean each year, neuston accumulate in the oceans’ “garbage patches.” “I don’t think anyone trying to pull plastic out of the ocean is also ...

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An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the ...