Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

Giant garbage patches are the most visible part of the oceans’ trash problem. But scientists are also worried about less conspicuous debris known as microplastics. WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez ...

While most of it ends up in landfills, 8 million tons wind up in our oceans each year — where most finds its way into massive garbage patches around the world. And the biggest of them all is ...

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 ...

Charles Moore, an ocean researcher credited with discovering the Pacific garbage patch in 1997, said the Atlantic undoubtedly has comparable amounts of plastic.

The winding trail of environmental microplastics leads researchers to the human digestive ecosystem. In this webinar, Ed Boyden and Jerzy Szablowski will talk about how synthetic biology can help ...

Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Trash from all over the world collects in the world’s oceans. Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of ...

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 ...

the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch developed as spinning debris was brought together by the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone.