The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. 33,950 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,950 people played the daily Crossword ...

As these currents swirl, they naturally pull trash toward the centers of the world’s five subtropical ... That’s home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the biggest and most studied plastic pile-up ...

California's entire coastline was at risk for dangerous conditions, prompting experts to advise people to stay out of the water.

Scientific investigations of the deep Pacific Ocean have remained mysterious since ... Deep-sea pollution is worse than you think—trash found miles underwater. Marine litter has developed into a ...

It’s the largest ocean cleanup in history. An extraction of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch emptied aboard a ship. Photo courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup But what about the plastic pollution ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division (USACE POD) Commanding General, Brigadier General Joseph “Clete” Goetz II, completed his week-long tour of the USACE Japan Engineer District ...

Three brothers are hoping to set a record time for rowing across the Pacific Ocean - having already conquered the Atlantic. Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean, from Edinburgh, start their four-month ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly ...