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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating mass of waste in the ... Pollution with plastic particles can weaken the effect of antibiotics, posing a threat to effective infection treatment ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch got its name from oceanographer ... In addition to the health effects of ocean plastic pollution, there are economic costs too — plastics in the ocean cost ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t an impassable ... been shown to consume microplastics regularly, though the health effects on these animals are unknown. Knowing where neustons live ...

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 Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square ... This is just one terrible effect that human-generated debris has on marine life.

A massive stretch in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage ... to help understand the ecological effects of a massive floating garbage patch while at the same time working to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not seem like it would be a hospitable place. It is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest streak of land. The sun is brutal and unrelenting there, the waters ...

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 ...