announced a campaign to make the Pacific garbage patch a recognised state. An application submitted to the UN on World Ocean’s Day asks for ‘The Trash Isles’ to be recognised as an official country.

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger ... that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely ...

Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN ... Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic ...

Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle ... Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists. The surprising and rapid rise in ocean ...

The Australian Navy rescued a Lithuanian rower caught in tropical cyclone Alfred during his solo venture crossing the Pacific Ocean. Aurimas Mockus, a 44-year-old adventurer, was 740km off the ...