A sample of the garbage found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is stored on the Ocean Starr during the 30-day Mega Expedition. Photographed on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif.

In a classic example of garbage-in-garbage-out, scientists have recently discovered yet another floating trash patch, this time in the South Pacific and covering as many as 386,000 square miles, a ...

The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre — the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world’s oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage ...

The most famous example of a gyre’s tendency to take out our trash is the Great Pacific Garbage patch located in the North Pacific Gyre. The patch is an area of concentrated (and mostly plastic ...

If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces. That's ten times more than there are stars in our Milky Way Galaxy ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulated mass of trash in the ocean, is 16 times bigger than we once thought—and it's not getting smaller.

For example, no one has accurately estimated how much garbage enters the ocean each year—much less the volume of plastic that’s swirling around in the water at any time.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch typically refers to an area of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii in which floating trash concentrates due to factors like wind and currents. The area ...

The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre -- the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world's oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex.

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 ...

Haram and her colleagues examined 105 items of plastic fished out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between November 2018 and January 2019. ... Whether, for example, ...