How the gyres that circulate our ocean waters also accumulate plastics. Find out what a garbage patch is and isn't, and what we can do about this ocean-sized problem. The most famous example of an ...

Community science survey reveals abundance of sea creatures in the North Pacific “Garbage Patch” Newswise — The North Pacific “Garbage Patch” is home to an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well ...

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Plastic debris swept through the seas by wind and waves has piled up in large areas of the North Pacific Ocean, collectively dubbed the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But on this raft of trash in the ...

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WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez explains why these specks of trash are a tough issue to address. Illustration: David Fang An 80,000-ton cloud of plastic and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean is an ...

Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the seas. They hang out at the nexus of the world's ocean currents, changing shape ...

Satellites can now track ocean garbage from space, marking a potential “game changer” for tracking the vexing problem of marine litter, new research suggests. The study, published in Nature ...

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Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.