Shoes, toilet seats, watering cans, bowling balls and boxes tumble to the ship's deck in a mountainous riot of colour. There are ropes, buoys, abandoned fishing gear, shredded nets and bottles ...

A newly published study has identified a fungus living in the sea that can break down plastic. The marine microbe, called ...

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 ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

the organization is still struggling to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a trash-filled vortex that's more than twice the size of Texas. The widening gyre is said to contain more than 1.8 ...