For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" cleanup is finally underway. The system uses natural currents of the sea to passively collect plastic debris.

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

An ambitious project to clean up the ocean’s plastic pollution got underway over the weekend as members of The Ocean Cleanup project began towing their system out to sea.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of an estimated 155 million pounds of plastic waste, spans an area twice the size of Texas. “Today’s announcement is clear: clean oceans can be achieved ...

Six years ago, two ships were sent out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in an effort to develop technology to clean it up for good. On Friday, those same two ships returned to San Francisco Bay.

The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch runs from California to Japan floating trillions of plastics and microplastics and polluting the oceans.