In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known as the five gyres. For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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 ...

With plastic recovery operations now underway in the world’s marine garbage patches, scientists must contend with how little was known about the organisms living at the surface. Amanda was an ...

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the ...

These quantities were similar to those found in one of the world's largest known garbage patches. The researchers highlight that plastics are distributed much more widely than expected.