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 ...
trash. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928 metres to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest ...
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”.
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 ...
of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage ... breaking haul of ocean plastic debris while docked ...
Volunteers helped collect the garbage from nearly 50 miles of coastline ... Debris from Asia often travels across the northern part of the Pacific Ocean toward the U.S., whereas trash from the western ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...