A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii Anna Lazarus Caplan ...

Sad news from the sea: The world’s largest collection of ocean garbage, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is getting bigger. The colossal collection of floating plastic trash is located halfway between ...

In Hawaii, a volunteer cleanup crew is hauling more junk off Kauai’s beaches than ever before. In the 2024 Surfrider Foundation report, the nonprofit reported that its volunteers had removed more than ...

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 Garbage ...

Matthias Egger of The Ocean Cleanup inspects floating plastics he collected in collaboration with the “FloatEco” project during the 2018 expedition in the North Pacific Gyre. Coastal podded hydroid ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

One man’s trash is an ocean creature’s home. Marine animals that typically live in the coastal areas of the western Pacific Ocean are multiplying on the debris of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a ...

LIHU‘E — Most of the marine debris that washes up on Kaua‘i shores comes from a Texas-sized mass of floating ocean trash known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. As the U.S. military eyes China, it ...

Studies have shown that the average person has around 6,000 thoughts per day, and that 95% of them are about themselves. Almost none of them are about garbage. OK, I made that last part up. But if you ...

In the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, hundreds of miles from any major city, plastic bottles, children’s toys, broken electronics, abandoned fishing nets and millions more fragments of ...

Hudson River used to be one of the most polluted rivers in the world. This activist swam its entire length ...