Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ocean’s surface. It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). The problem is that ...

Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This story is part of CNET Zero ...

The ‘eastern patch’ area of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch sits west of California, and southwest of the Oregon coast. A map shows the scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large area ...

Boyan Slat has never been afraid to dream big. His mission in life is to rid the world of as much plastic pollution as he can, and he’s doing it through aptly-named The Ocean Cleanup. The last ...