The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

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

She set sail on a monthlong voyage into the North Pacific Gyre, parts of which are known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The gyre, or area of spiraling ocean currents, is approximately twice ...

A newly published study has identified a fungus living in the sea that can break down plastic. The marine microbe, called Parengyodontium album was found on plastic debris floating in the Great ...

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 ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and how this garbage affects wildlife. Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle”.

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. 31,560 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,560 people played the daily Crossword ...