A Brooklyn Artist, the North Atlantic Garbage Patch and the Magic of the Message in a Bottle. Published Mar 07, 2016 at 11:37 AM EST Updated May 26, 2016 at 10:16 PM EDT.

Ocean Garbage Patch Not Growing—Where's "Missing" Plastic? The "soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study that's puzzling ocean scientists.

The affected region in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Ocean stretches east to west between Cuba and ... D.C., or Miami, Fla., to the Atlantic garbage patch within just 40 days.

A huge garbage patch of floating plastic in the North Atlantic Ocean has been documented by scientists for the first time. Plastic accumulated in regions called gyres, where currents circle and ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Billions of pieces of plastic trash are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean, mirroring the Texas-sized one in the Pacific, scientists have found. Written by Andrew Nusca ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area between Hawaii and California where a large amount of litter, fishing gear, ... in the North Atlantic Garbage Patch in the Sargasso Sea.

Scientists at the 5 Gyres Institute — which tracks plastic pollution in all five swirling subtropical gyres — discovered this mass of plastic by looking at ocean currents. This patch has ...

It spans hundreds of miles and is the home of possibly hundreds of years of lost beach balls, candy wrappers, fishing corks and random plastic - the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. One can only ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Researchers are warning of a new blight on the ocean: a swirl of confetti-like plastic debris stretching over thousands of square miles (kilometers) in a remote expanse ...

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