The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a rotating region of trash floating and suspended in the water of the central North Pacific Ocean. It is about twice the size of Texas.

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. Coastal plant and animal ...

The bold question-askers at What If explore what happens when humans dump 3.5 billion tons of trash into the deep ocean.

But that estimate relied on trawling for trash with nets. On his current trip, Moore did a similar 4.5-mile (7.2 kilometer) trawl of the ocean, but also used drones to assess the extent of trash ...

So Haram and her colleagues decided to sample some of the garbage out in the Pacific, with the help of a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup, which had gone out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it's starting to look like one, too. A "floating" island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...

Around two-thirds of the debris studied was home to both coastal and open-ocean species living together. More plastic is expected to make its way into the ocean in coming years.

The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

Ocean pollution poses risks to both marine and human life, and a sunken cargo ship is polluting the shores of Sri Lanka, ...