With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...
The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...
Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...
The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square kilometers, about twice the size ...
But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...
The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...
An analysis of the trash vortex's composition revealed a clear increase in the presence of plastic microparticles between ...
All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...
Amid vast, swirling currents, 170 trillion microplastic particles drift unseen through our oceans, creating hidden patches of ...
A documentary about an all-female crew's journey through an area of ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is set for release this month. Eleanor Church, 41, from Colchester, sailed with ...
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The sailor has come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific Garbage patches ... and disperse mountains of microplastics into the ocean, which then make their way ...