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 ...

So where does all the trash go, then? The massive collection of debris in the Pacific Ocean has a formal name: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geographic explains that the Great Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...

He started building and photographing sculptures of ocean trash to illustrate the problem of marine pollution. Eventually he began to gather the detritus to use as his art materials, cleaning a ...

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 ...

It's a pedestrian cross between the Cave of Wonders in "Aladdin" and a trash island floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ... falling through a floating pile of craigslist for sale items ...

One person was hospitalized when a large debris flow in Malibu pushed a Los Angeles Fire Department vehicle into the Pacific Ocean in the midst of a powerful rainstorm. It happened just after 5 p ...

Volunteers clambered over piles of driftwood ... most of the debris that washes up in the Pacific Northwest traces back to ...