The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit organization, aims to rid the world's oceans of plastic. It recently debuted a device it said collected 20,000 pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But some ...

Anika Albrecht of Ocean Voyages Institute, collects plastic in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre on a 2020 expedition. A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating ...

The end of the first voyage for The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit that hopes to rid the world of ocean plastic, is the end of a long journey for founder and CEO Boyan Slat, who first presented the ...

Coastal species are thriving in the middle of the ocean in a patch of garbage and plastic, researchers said in a new study. While studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, scientists found coastal ...

An elaborate plan masterminded by a college dropout to help rid the Pacific Ocean of a Texas-sized island of garbage will kick off next month. While it sounds promising, some experts have expressed ...

Scientists studying a giant collection of plastic trash floating in the middle of the open ocean have found some unexpected inhabitants: dozens of marine species that usually stick close to the coast.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash located halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, a study published Thursday finds.

First system to be tested at sea, hopes to help "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch foundation developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, unveiled its North ...

A fridge, toilet seats, and more than 63,000 pounds of trash. That's what a cleanup team recovered in a monthslong effort to chip away at the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive ...

If you're going to go to the trouble sailing 3,000 miles to the center of what many refer to as the ocean's garbage dump, to collect said garbage for science and study, it's not a major stretch to ...

A giant patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean is now “an immense floating plastic habitat” for marine animals clinging to its plastic debris, researchers have found. Coastal plant and animal species ...