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 ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

In October 2019, The Ocean Cleanup project made headlines around the world when its prototype vessel started collecting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This launch followed a year of ...

Welcome to episode two of NPR Short Wave's summer series, Sea Camp! Today, we linger at the surface and revisit an episode about an ocean conundrum: Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ...

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 users ...

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