A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP): centimeter ... The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between ...
The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...
Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch ... Ocean Cleanup Foundation Modelled mass concentration of plastic in the area The use of ...
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 ...
Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming an ever more serious ...
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 largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...