Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

The ‘eastern patch’ area of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch sits west of California, and southwest of the Oregon coast. A map shows the scale of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large area ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now flourishing with marine life. On Monday, scientists revealed that a diverse array of coastal species are thriving in a "floating community composition ...

He had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Over a thousand miles from land in the central North Pacific Ocean, the boat captain and oceanographer Captain Charles Moore puzzled over the ...

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 ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several ...

So it’s a good bet that no one is thinking much of anything about even the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, let alone any of the more run-of-the-mill garbage patches of the world. But now that you ...

One man’s trash is an ocean creature’s home. Marine animals that typically live in the coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean are multiplying on the debris of the Great Pacific Garbage ...