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

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

Long-term observations conducted by The Ocean Cleanup organization have shown that the mass of plastic fragments in the Great ...

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

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

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...

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 ...

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 ...

A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly ... up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

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 ... and disperse mountains of microplastics into the ocean, which then make their way ...