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 ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

The term "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" refers to a massive area more than 1.6 million square kilometers in size, but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents ...

In the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup team executed 112 trash extractions and have found that cleaning up the oceanic blight will come at a price tag of about $7 billion -- less ...

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP ... The research, conducted by The Ocean Cleanup between 2015 and ...

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 ...