The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now holds tens of thousands of tons of plastic pieces, along with dozens of species that call it "home." ...

March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...

Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, on a 2020 expedition collecting plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, where she served as Chief Mate. (Photo courtesy of Ocean Voyages Institute ...

When we dip our toes into the ocean, it's sometimes hard to tell what else is in the water. Researchers know we're sharing the waves with plastic debris and other trash. The 5 Gyres project studies ...

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The Dutch nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup hauled almost 64,000 pounds of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after two and a half months of testing the latest iteration of its collection ...

Imagine the weight of a million midsize SUVs lined up from Maine to California. Now picture that much plastic spread across the Earth’s oceans. Roughly 170 trillion pieces of plastic are in our oceans ...

Mark Dion, “Cabinet of Marine Debris,” mixed media (courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery) (click to enlarge) “By bringing the arts and the sciences together, as well as other disciplines, university ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling reminder, often hidden from our collective view. A cargo hold full of debris and plastic plucked from a floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean known as the ...

The 5 Gyres Institute is starting its annual initiative to track amounts of trash in National Parks. Any visitor to national parks can help by recording data about the trash they see in any U.S. park ...