Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the ...

More than a thousand miles from the nearest coast, in the vast and isolated waters of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, marine researchers have confirmed the formation of stable communities of life ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and other ...

After 6 years of development and three years of extraction operations, The Ocean Cleanup declares the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be eliminated Ocean Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent ...

Boyan Slat has set the bar high for what he wants his non-profit to achieve, removing 90% of the plastic from the world’s ...

In the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, hundreds of miles from any major city, plastic bottles, children’s toys, broken electronics, abandoned fishing nets and millions more fragments of ...

At twice the size of Texas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is continuing to grow, posing as a serious threat to the environment and ocean life. According to The Ocean Cleanup, an organization ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Floating in the middle of the ocean is a giant collection of trash and debris that's come to be known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The accumulation of plastics, cans and ...