In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been, covering an area ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

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 ...

Whether you see someone litter on purpose or on accident you can be a great citizen and tell them to pick it up. If you do, ...

Floating in the North Pacific Ocean is a mountain of waste the size of France. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of two masses of rubbish between the US and Japan and contains everything from ...

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The 600-meter-long structure will tackle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a huge buildup of trash floating between California and Hawaii—but not everyone thinks it will work.