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 ‘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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now flourishing with marine life. On Monday, scientists revealed that a diverse array of coastal species are thriving in a "floating community composition ...

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 ...

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 ...

One man’s trash is an ocean creature’s home. Marine animals that typically live in the coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean are multiplying on the debris of the Great Pacific Garbage ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of it almost entirely. The Ocean Cleanup, a Netherlands-based company ...

So it’s a good bet that no one is thinking much of anything about even the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, let alone any of the more run-of-the-mill garbage patches of the world. But now that you ...

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 ...