For this second installment of the Sea Camp series, we explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's the largest of five ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

They even put a price tag on cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. For $7.5 billion, Sainte Rose’s team estimates that the GPGP could be cleared within a decade . The plastic ecosystem ...

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.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is estimated to have 100,000 tons of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean, but despite ...

Despite the challenges, ocean science has been able to monitor where the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet, mix, and how their ...

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.

Synopsis: Between the state of California and Hawaiæi lies the great Pacific garbage patch. It is 1.6 million square kilometers in area, which is twice the state of Texas and three times the size of ...