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

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

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

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

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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.

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote ... area has given the North Pacific Gyre the nickname “the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Most of the marine ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ... The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ... The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific ...