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 ...

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 garbage. These are known as the five gyres.

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 ...

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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