In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer Caroline Power captured the picture, which shows a large area ...

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it ...

According to a study from the "Nature" journal published in 2022, the majority of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch originates from five countries: Japan, China, South Korea ...

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

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 ...

The world now discards 250 million pounds of clothes, 220 aluminum cans and three million tires every day — but it’s plastics ...

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A photograph genuinely shows the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” that grew to “be twice the size of Texas.” Rating: Context: Though the photograph is authentic, it was captured in 2017 and shows a ...