Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

Ocean Garbage Patches Have a Microscopic Problem Giant garbage patches are the most visible part of the oceans’ trash problem. But scientists are also worried about less conspicuous debris known ...

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute to collect ... in an area of the open ocean dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Many of the creatures are coastal species ...

As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of ...

"The planet is pretty big, it turns out," Boyan said. "There's about 1,000 rivers we need to tackle and five ocean garbage patches, [so] the first few years were really about trying to understand ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the largest accumulation of plastic in the world, but one company says it can get rid of ...

A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

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