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

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been ... The newest survey, which was conducted by The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, was authored by over a dozen international ...

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

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

She set sail on a monthlong voyage into the North Pacific Gyre, parts of which are known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The gyre, or area of spiraling ocean currents, is approximately twice ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage. These are known ... have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization, they ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

A teenager at the time, Slat’s vision for ridding the ocean of the plastics that pollute our waterways and create garbage patches around the globe first gained notoriety because of his unique ...

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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 ...

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean each year – equivalent to dumping in a garbage truckload of it every minute. A new report calls on the US to help stem the ...