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

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

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

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ocean debris Scientists have ... of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are ...

where three major ocean currents converge, acts like a giant whirlpool that can trap such debris, creating the ecological nightmare that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is a danger to sea ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and how this garbage affects wildlife. Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle”.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, around 1,200 miles from shore, sits a giant vortex of trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The site is home to more than 1.8 trillion pieces of ...

A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing ... "And they also discovered that the Garbage Patch is moving around much more than anyone expected." Ocean Cleanup Foundation ...

If Captain Cook had set off on his legendary voyages in his bid to uncover the mysteries of the Pacific ... to all the trash that is hauled week after week. According to The Ocean Cleanup, they ...