In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation ... a trash island. In the documentary “Sailing the Ocean of Trash with Captain ...

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

Ocean cleanup: They pulled 63,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but that's just the start The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of floating trash, most of it ...

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that these pictures of the GPGP are misleading and obscure the truth about the content of the GPGP ...

The largest is the North Pacific Garbage Patch, known colloquially as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These areas were long thought to have been uninhabited, the plastics and fishing gear too ...

Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Several days ago, The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project announced its ambitious timeline and cost to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all: 10 years and US$7.5 billion.

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...