The accumulated floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 620,000 square miles — nearly twice the size of Texas. One group is trying to clean up the more than 100,000 tons of ...

A photo provided by NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center shows debris in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii in 2008. A 2014 study estimated nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans.

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. They identified 484 marine invertebrate organisms on ...

It's an immense floating trash vortex spanning approximately 617,763.454 ... these tiny plastic fragments represent 94% of the estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic floating in this marine ...

What's more, some of the coastal species were reproducing on their makeshift, floating plastic homes. One Japanese anemone, for example, clearly had been making more copies of itself.

HAMPTON — Police have identified the body found floating in the water near the jetty at Hampton Beach early Wednesday morning.. State Police announced Friday that Stephen Gelineau, 47, of Lowell ...

“And it doesn’t really matter what plastic it is.” It’s not just bacteria that are hitching a ride on plastics. Biofilms on marine plastics can also harbor parasites , viruses , and toxic ...

HAMPTON — Police received a call about a body floating in the water near the jetty at Hampton Beach early Wednesday morning. Hampton Police Chief Alex Reno said the call came in around 7:30 a.m.