The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t just a floating trash pile. There are roughly 171 trillion pieces of plastic lurking in the world's oceans. By RJ Mackenzie. Published Apr 13, 2025 8:00 AM EDT.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be cleaned using this Isaac Newton-inspired approach, scientists say. Story by Kamrin Baker • 4d. W hen plastic gets to the ocean, it tends to accumulate in ...

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction. A new system will be able to clear a football field every five seconds.

Can animals live in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Marine biologist Linsey Haram hosts the first episode of Nature Brain, the videos that deliver weird and surprising science to your brain in 2 ...

More information: Luca Kunz et al, Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Ocean Science (2024). DOI: 10.5194/os-20-1611-2024.

The Ocean Cleanup will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage AWS’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cloud computing capabilities to enable and accelerate ...