SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation British fund have even calculated that if garbage ...

More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk. Garbage mountains rising above the sea. A thick crust of filth coating the ...

A bird surrounded by debris from the ocean on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Credit: Matthew Chauvin Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, ...

The giant mass of floating plastic that has imperiled birds and wildlife between San Francisco and Hawaii contains 1.8 trillion pieces of trash covering an area nearly four times the size of ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid island of rubbish, but a vast region of ocean where currents concentrate floating plastic into a soup of debris. It sits in the North Pacific Subtropical ...