Albatrosses in the North Pacific Ocean are ingesting plastic debris from a huge floating garbage dump, even in areas far from any cities, scientists say. This skeleton of a Laysan albatross chick ...

The 600-metre-long floating boom was being towed from San Francisco to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of trash twice the size of Texas.

LOS ANGELES — A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed ...

The trash was then counted, weighed, categorized, and analyzed for its origin and age. Plastic extraction from System 002, The Ocean Cleanup’s ocean system cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

SAN FRANCISCO—Scientists and volunteers who have spent the past month gathering data on how much plastic garbage is floating in the Pacific Ocean say most of the trash is medium to large pieces ...

VICTORIA — About eight tonnes of plastics have been hauled out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the first of two six-week tests of a new trash-collecting system. If all goes well, the ...

File - In this Sept. 8, 2018 file photo, a ship tows The Ocean Cleanup's first buoyant trash-collecting device toward the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco en route to the Pacific Ocean. The trash ...

Man begins 6-month swim across Pacific Ocean — and through 1,600 km of trash By Katie Dangerfield Global News Posted June 5, 2018 10:32 am 2 min read ...

The entire Great Pacific Garbage Patch is stuck in what is called a subtropical gyre. What that means is that the ocean currents, which are in a circular motion, draw the debris together and traps ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on ...

When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.