Coastal species are thriving in the middle of the ocean in a patch of garbage and plastic, researchers said in a new study. While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal ...

So Haram and her colleagues decided to sample some of the garbage out in the Pacific, with the help of a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup, which had gone out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration ... which moves around the world's oceans in a never-ending circle. The gyres are part of the "ocean conveyor belt" driven by currents ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is twice the size of Texas, is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre – the biggest of five huge ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific ... based Ocean Cleanup said in a press release, announcing the group’s intention to eliminate the garbage patch ...

Illustration: David Fang An 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean is an environmental disaster. It is also teeming with life. Biologists who fished toothbrushes ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw its largest extraction earlier this month by removing about 25,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination that’s infamous as a home for trash: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A new device recently installed in Los Angeles is helping block tons of garbage from floating out into the Pacific Ocean. The Interceptor, made by the Dutch nonprofit The ...

Plastic debris swept through the seas by wind and waves has piled up in large areas of the North Pacific Ocean, collectively dubbed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But on this raft of trash ...

the Ocean Cleanup has deployed trash interceptors in waste-ridden outlets to the world's oceans, including one in Marina del Rey. That device kept about 77 tons of trash from entering the Pacific ...