Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

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Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic. The east coast of the United States ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most polluted areas of the ocean. 22-year-old Boyan Slat has a potential cleanup solution. The Ocean Cleanup uses a boom to capture plastic and keep ...

The infamous Pacific garbage patch is changing the balance of life in the seas. At least 37 species of coastal creatures — worms, crabs, shellfish and the like — have ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

In 2013, Slat founded The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex in the Pacific Ocean that's more than twice the size of ...

The largest of these vortexes, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located in Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. It's estimated to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...