This striking satellite image, taken from Google Maps in 2021, shows a bizarre, jet-black, triangular structure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ... that the dark patch was actually Vostok ...

A recent survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch revealed that the aggregated plastic there weighs in at 79,000 metric tons, floating across an area larger than Mongolia. The great mass of castaway ...

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP): centimeter ... The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between ...

Plastic samples collected during the expedition in 2015 Credit: THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

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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 term "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" refers to a massive area more than 1.6 million square kilometers in size, but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the ... nutrient-rich water” of the cold tongue has become a “prosperous patch [that] feeds phytoplankton and breathes ...

The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch developed as spinning ...