This poses a threat to the local ecosystem and the global carbon cycle. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming an ever more serious ...

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

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 ...

Long-term observations conducted by The Ocean Cleanup organization have shown that the mass of plastic fragments in the Great ...

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 unsustainable practice of killing fish for human consumption not only harms them but countless other marine animals die ...

In a Long Beach shopping center near where the San Gabriel River empties into Alamitos Bay, researchers, educators and ...

from the Great Pacific Garbage patch. (plastic trash spills upon deck) ♪ NARRATOR: The success has inspired a very ambitious target: to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. That will ...