In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area of trash off the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, estimated to contain as much as 142 thousand tons of plastic garbage spread over an area that covers a million square miles, is no ...

Inventor attempts to conquer the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" 02:05 ALAMEDA, Calif. — A ship on Saturday will start towing a long device from Northern California more than 1,000 miles out to ...

The massive plastic-cleaning device invented by a 24-year-old is headed out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — here's what the launch looked like ...

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch weighs 87,000 tons -- 16 times more than previous estimates -- and contains more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, according to a new analysis.

Early next month, a 24-year-old entrepreneur from the Netherlands named Boyan Slat will launch an ambitious project in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: On Sept. 8, crews will drag a 2,000-foot, U ...

The most thorough examination of the infamous "Pacific Garbage Patch"-- a floating swath of debris caught in a gyre — shows it's bigger, way bigger, than thought. And it's mostly plastic.

It may look like a giant pipeline, but the 2,000-foot-long contraption will soon be cleaning up what's known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," made up of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of ...