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 ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is more than 600,000 square miles in size. First discovered in the early 1990s, the trash in the patch comes from around the Pacific Rim. It's working!

Related:Whales Have Been Spotted Swimming in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time The Ocean Cleanup Spinning circular currents keep the garbage within the bounds of its sprawling ...

A garbage sample is pulled out of the ocean at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), located between halfway between Hawaii and California, in a photo provided by The Ocean Cleanup on March 23 ...

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Vast That Sea Creatures Have Turned It Into a Home. ... Vt. Shelter Saves 2 Dogs and a Cat Found Wandering the Streets Together in a Real-Life Homeward Bound ...

Eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most of the plastics are floating in the top several feet of the ocean. Therefore, The Ocean Cleanup focuses on eliminating plastic from this top layer.

Below is a guest post from Oliver Harris, the co-founder of STOP Ocean Plastics, who believes the media has missed a key point in the controversial debate about the islands of garbage said to be ...

A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal ...

“A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times the size of France. According to a three-year study published in Scientific Reports Friday, ...