For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim. It's working!

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, meanwhile, occupies more than 600,000 square miles in the open ocean between Hawaii and California, USA Today reported.

An ocean mass of plastic waste known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floating off the coast of California attracted new attention Thursday with a report concluding that its size was ...

The Ocean Cleanup says they could have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch almost entirely eradicated in as little as five years, for a cost of $4 billion. Watch this video to see how much plastic ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Now Has Its Own Visual Identity. Give that massive pile of trash a currency, a passport, and a flag, and you've got yourself a nation.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is getting denser. The enormous plastic soup floating in the vast North Pacific spans more than 617,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers), and its ...

1. It’s big. At 618,000 square miles, there’s plenty of room in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for everyone’s garbage. Scientists say that it’s twice the size of Texas.

Anemones, barnacles and other species carried out to sea on plastic debris aren't just surviving on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They're thriving.

While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal species occurred on more than 70% of debris, according to a study published Monday in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.