That really doesn't bode well.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether it is good news or bad news for the environment, the world’s largest garbage dumps are not ...

Some of the ways plastic waste is reshaping the marine ecosystem are quite insidious, such as the tiny particles that organisms can consume and send traveling up the food chain. Others are plain to ...

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 ...

A recent cleanup effort involving the environmental tragedy known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch gives hope that some of the damage done by dumping decades of plastic waste can somehow be ...

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 ...