On recovering discarded plastic from a great depth, the experts were taken aback to see its shape perfectly impact and there ...

Barry Rosenthal started collecting plastic garbage on a New York shoreline ... He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution.

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 ...

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 ...

In fact, so much has amalgamated in the Pacific Ocean that a new island has been born, made of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) has an estimated ...

A new study from the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering (CSE) found it can use sensors to detect ...

It’s unfortunate, but a lot of trash ends up in our rivers and, eventually, our oceans. Cleaning efforts can be costly and require a lot of human power. One of the ways to keep trash out from ...

but unfortunately our used plastic is getting into the ocean. It can end up causing all sorts of problems for sea life and marine mammals. But how does our plastic waste end up littering the ocean?

It’s the year 2025 and, by now, it is abundantly clear that we have a major plastic problem–garbage patches in the ocean, ...

The species is the largest sea turtle that migrates in tropical and temperate seas, including the Pacific Ocean ... ingesting white or transparent garbage. The plastic sheet had small holes ...