That really doesn't bode well.

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge collection of trash floating in the North Pacific Ocean. It’s made up mostly of plastic—things like water bottles, shoes, and fishing gear, but also a large ...

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii Anna Lazarus Caplan ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is absolutely teeming with life. Even coastal species have made it their new home despite the fact that the patch is located in the middle of ...

The garbage patch off the Pacific coast of the United States is so large that it’s become its own thriving ecosystem. A team of researchers has discovered that coastal species, in addition to ocean ...

A massive floating island of plastic is growing fast. A massive floating island of plastic between California and Hawaii is growing rapidly and is now three times the size of France, a new study finds ...

The self-contained system uses natural currents of the sea to passively collect plastic debris. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early ...

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 ...