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 ...

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute ... marine animals living on plastic debris in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch".

A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly ... about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Hawaii.

With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...

Ocean plastic damages air quality ... The Ocean Cleanup estimates that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million ...

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 ...

It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size ... If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual ...

Research conducted over seven years has shown that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is accumulating more plastic waste from ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that centimeter-sized plastic fragments are increasing much ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

A recent study from The Ocean Cleanup found that plastic journeys through the water for a long time before reaching the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (if it ever makes it). Along the way ...

If Captain Cook had set off on his legendary voyages in his bid to uncover the mysteries of the Pacific Ocean now ... come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific ...