In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

A relatively uncharted island entirely made of trash, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enigma. Still, reducing its size is an even bigger mystery. The Ocean Cleanup is an organization using ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least ...

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," which is ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists set sail from San Francisco on Tuesday to the "Great ...

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. Ocean surface ...

SAN DIEGO - An increase in plastic debris floating in a zone between Hawaii and California is changing the environment of at least one marine critter, scientists reported. Over the past four decades, ...

Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the seas. They hang out at the nexus of the world's ocean currents, changing shape ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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, ...

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 Anna Lazarus Caplan ...