With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...

The study examined plastic items more than 5cm (2in) in diameter gathered from a gyre - an area where circulating currents cause floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr ...

Shoes, toilet seats, watering cans, bowling balls and boxes tumble to the ship’s deck in a mountainous riot of colour. There are ropes, buoys, abandoned fishing gear, shredded nets and bottles ...

The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

An analysis of the trash vortex's composition revealed a clear increase in the presence of plastic microparticles between ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

a nonprofit that's raised millions of dollars to put into action a plan that Slat devised to help clean the massive Pacific garbage gyre, an area of the ocean where swirling currents cause plastic ...

Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real estate in what's known as ...

the organization is still struggling to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex that's more than twice the size of Texas. The widening gyre is said to contain more than 1.8 ...