A new explainer from The Ocean Cleanup is challenging a familiar misconception online: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not ...

Between California and Hawaii, a slow-turning circle of ocean current has been gathering the world’s floating plastic for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

Thousands of kilometres from the nearest continental coastline, discarded plastic is carrying an unexpected community of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch represents a vast area of ocean pollution, containing trillions of plastic pieces and ...

One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

Two ships sent out to develop ways to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the ocean returned to San Francisco on Friday. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Floating in the middle of the ocean ...