As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Now Has Its Own Visual Identity Give that massive pile of trash a currency, a passport, and a flag, and you've got yourself a nation. Do You Have 5 Minutes A Day To ...

Many of the creatures are coastal species, living miles from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between ... floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr Linsey Haram ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...

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 ...

The sailor has come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific Garbage patches that sprawl a total of over 1.6 million square kilometres — half the size of India!

Part of the challenge is that our junk can’t go just anywhere, although it certainly does so here on Earth; microplastics are literally everywhere and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around ...