They unreel a giant U-shaped boom trailing a 10ft deep "skirt" that traps plastic in a Brobdingnagian "sock" but allows fish to escape. Trawling often rough seas, the vessels haul in their catch ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been, covering an area that spans 1.6 million square kilometers. That’s up to 16 times larger than previous estimates had suggested ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch typically refers to an area of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii in which floating trash concentrates due to factors like wind and currents. The area ...

Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of miles from their original home on plastic debris in the Great Pacific ...

While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal species occurred on more than 70% of debris, according to a study published Monday in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal.

An analysis of more than 6,000 plastics collected from patch trace back to fishing industries in Japan, China, South Korea, and the US.

The Great Pacific Ocean Patch refers to a big swirling soup of plastic in the ocean. A new study found the patch was full of sea life that was living on the plastic debris. The findings challenged ...

Discover the surprising world of creatures that call the Pacific Garbage Patch home. Learn how marine life has adapted to this unique environment, turning floating debris into habitats and finding ...

Ocean garbage patch is home to porpita, by-the-wind-sailor : Short Wave Trash from humans is constantly spilling into the ocean — so much so that there are five gigantic garbage patches in the ...

Apr. 19—The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the large expanse of marine debris in the ocean, is home to new communities of coastal species, researchers have found. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...