To formulate the size of the island, a team of scientists ... of floating plastic debris is found in the Atlantic Ocean - the North Atlantic garbage patch - which was first documented in 1972 ...
The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso ... and has become home to a nightmarish manmade island, dubbed the North Atlantic Garbage Patch. And yet, it remains a ...
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park gets so quiet that people forget how close it is to a city. The hideaway between the ...
In a post on X on Saturday, Rhode Island US Senator Jack Reed suggested renaming a large swath of the Atlantic Ocean — from New England to North Carolina — the “Gulf of Rhode Island.” ...
A massive iceberg, known as A23a, is on an apparent collision course with South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The giant sheet of ice, which originally broke off ...
However, unlike a true island, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid mass, but rather a dense collection of floating pieces. In 2018, scientists from The Ocean Cleanup project estimated ...