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Coast Guard says there are still a few fuel tanks that divers haven't been able to get to, which could be carrying as much as ...

The Kaisei has been on three separate expeditions to monitor and report on the vast and growing vortex of trash known as the ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific, captured by four currents ...

getting caught up in the natural waves of the ocean and other collected pollution, with nowhere to escape. There is no example more famous than the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a heap of trash roughly ...

Less is known about how the waste gets to the ocean. But it’s clear that ... when he announced a grand plan to sweep up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of loose marine debris ...

marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally ... the Hawaiian chain is in the drift pattern of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But they never intended to join the growing hunt for ...

A floating boom has surrounded a large two-masted sailing vessel that sank over the weekend at its Alameda dock in the Oakland Estuary. The Kaisei is a ...