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

Millions of tons of floating plastic end up in the ocean each year. The largest mass of accumulated plastic in the world is ...

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet off the southernmost tip of South America, and many factors contribute to how fast they ...

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 ...

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, green energy booms beyond D.C.; GM batteries heading for data center, energy grid packs; using AI to fight the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...