Sausalito-based recovery ship KWAI collected over 96 tons of plastic materials from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after a month-long voyage.

The team gathered 105 pieces of floating plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—in 2018 and 2019. They found coastal marine animals ...

The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1,000 miles west of San Francisco, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch now has a South Pacific cousin. By Kendra Pierre-Louis. Published Jul 21, 2017 11:13 PM EDT ... the North Pacific Gyre, ...

The so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” has now become so vast and permanent that a diverse range of species have taken up residence within it, according to new findings. Every year ...

Anemones, barnacles and other species carried out to sea on plastic debris aren't just surviving on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. They're thriving.

It's a rumor that we hoped would never be confirmed: at least 1,700 miles of plastic trash is floating in what is commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Up until this point, scientists ...

The widening gyre, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is said to contain more than 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic, or the equivalent of 250 pieces of debris for every person on Earth.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large collection of marine debris that can be seen floating on the ocean surface. It’s large, but you can’t see it from space.

The giant mass of floating plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, now measures almost 620,000 square miles and is as much as 16 times larger than previous ...

• Gyre: Regarding a Tragedy of the Commons — This exhibition by Robert Gaylor addresses the accumulation of plastic waste known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" in the North Pacific Gyre (a giant, ...

Some 79,000 tonnes of plastic debris is swirling in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre between California and Hawaii. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...