Recent research on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is reshaping how scientists and the public understand ocean pollution.

The open ocean has new inhabitants ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

There's an 80,000-ton monster lurking in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California and it's still getting bigger, NBC News reported. Arguably more frightening than any shark, the Great Pacific ...

The real problem is that the plastic isn't just large pieces of debris like bottles and discarded fishing nets.

Ocean currents are pulling plastics into a new garbage patch in Arctic waters. Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size ...

Imagine trillions of pieces of plastic debris that, if strung together end to end, would line every inch of coastline in the world at least three times over. That’s how much garbage researchers found ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Hosts a Distinct Coastal-Open Ocean Ecosystem ...

Scientists from UCSD have returned from their trip to the Northern Pacific and have brought back tales, pictures and more than 100 samples from a blob of degraded plastic that is reportedly the size ...

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