As Moore passed through, he noticed something: trash—specifically plastic trash—all around. This remote part of the ocean was, he told Stephen Colbert in 2010, “a disgusting plastic cesspool.” ...

Ben Lecomte swam through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as part of the icebreaker Vortex Swim and a research team in Austria sifted through human stool. Both found the same thing.

Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, eat it or ride on it, a ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vortex of trash created from an ocean gyre in the central North Pacific. The trash vortex was discovered in the mid-1980s and lies halfway between Hawaii and ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast marine debris vortex, is being tackled by The Ocean Cleanup’s innovative technologies. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson explains.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than just a swirling vortex of plastic floating in the open ocean over 1,000 miles from land — it's also become an ecosystem hosting a variety of sea ...

As ocean currents swirl in a vortex, ... The team’s research began in 2018 in this patch of garbage, where they collected trash to study. Because ocean expeditions are expensive, ...

Maybe it’s because it’s 8 a.m. on a Friday and the weekend is nigh. Maybe I’m just a bit loopy. But my favorite ultra-progressive, take-him-with-a-grain-of-salt columnist and uber-agitator ...

A study published in 'Nature Ecology & Evolution' found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii ...

Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, eat it or ride on it ...

The idea behind the mission comes from 22-year-old Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup's founder and CEO, who launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2014 with an original design to clean up 42 percent of trash ...

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii ...