The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, otherwise known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is considered the world's largest accumulation of ocean plastic. It's so massive, in fact, that ...

The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday. The Netherlands-based nonprofit the Ocean ...

Instead of consisting of trees, however, it would be made up of plastic-and-concrete tubes ... ones to place a windbreak on top of the floating breakwater structure." ...

The folks behind the Breakwater Chicago proposal — essentially a floating "resort" and event space for Lake Michigan — have been releasing new renderings of their project through social media ...

Floating breakwaters represent an increasingly important solution for coastal protection, offering flexibility and adaptability in mitigating wave energy and reducing shoreline erosion.

And now scientists think they know why. The fact that sea animals and birds eat floating plastic has long puzzled biologists. Their best guess was that it looks like food. But the new evidence ...

Green turtles are at risk of death from the plastic floating in the oceans because they think it is food, according to a new study. The plastics, which are often green, black or clear in color ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Breakwater Chicago, a floating entertainment complex, is proposed for development on Lake Michigan. The new attraction could open as soon as next summer. The vessel is the size of ...

A floating breakwater used in deep waters to shelter floating solar energy platforms from large waves is being developed by researchers at the University of Malta. Researchers said the novel design of ...

A floating resort barge is luxurious enough, but how about one with a lazy river? Breakwater Chicago is a proposed 300x100-foot party vessel that will be anchored on Lake Michigan, a little more than ...