But the Pacific gyre, where three major ocean currents converge, acts like a giant whirlpool that can trap such debris, creating the ecological nightmare that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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.

A ship is launching from Los Angeles this weekend carrying an unusual cargo: 2,000 feet of floating tubing, which researchers hope will clean some of the plastic clogging up the ocean. This makes ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 8, an ungainly, 2,000-foot-long contraption will steam under the Golden Gate Bridge in what’s either a brilliant quest or a fool's errand: to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Located deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a floating garbage pile twice the size of Texas. A 2,000-foot-long floating pipe nicknamed Wilson is primed to eliminate the mess, CNN reports ...

The initial floating structure is expected to span some 1.2 miles in the ocean to collect plastic and debris, according to Netherlands-based group, The Ocean Cleanup.

The giant floating garbage patch in the sea that is in danger of infecting the food chain An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of ...

This region between Hawaii and California has become a giant garbage soup, because currents drag in floating debris that accumulates over time.