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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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ocean currents deliver to our shores plastic waste from around the world, and nearby is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The UH Mānoa team is now expanding on its research to see if these ...

Why is plastic pollution so dangerous for our seas? And what’s the most unexpected find in Venice’s canals? We asked Italian researcher Fantina Madricardo, who led a project using high-tech solutions ...