Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been ... The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, was authored by over a dozen international ...

Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a different patch of garbage off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea — not the Pacific Ocean. For years, social media ...

With no investors, no credentials, and just $300 in savings, this teenager decided to clean the ocean... and somehow, it worked.

In addition to removing trash from the garbage patch, the Ocean Cleanup has deployed trash interceptors in waste-ridden outlets to the world's oceans, including one in Marina del Rey. That device ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe.

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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 ...