Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, collects plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on a 2020 expedition. A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating ...

The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic. It recently debuted a device it said collected 20,000 pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But some ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.

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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 ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

First system to be tested at sea, hopes to help "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, unveiled its North ...

The recent headlines around the missing Malaysia Airlines jet caught my eye and not necessarily for the mystery of locating the plane, but for the ocean debris that has been throwing off search crews ...

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to... This floating ocean garbage is home to a surprising ...

A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal species ...