The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

You've probably seen the photos: a sea turtle trapped in fishing line, a plastic bottle wedged in coral, and shorelines littered with packaging. That's not some distant problem. The same waste tossed ...

The recent headlines around the missing Malaysia Airlines jet caught my eye and not necessarily for the mystery of locating the plane, but for the ocean debris that has been throwing off search crews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 90 percent of the plastics in the GPGP are microplastics. Azure waves lapping against huge piles of built-up junk.

The Ocean Cleanup has removed over 45 million kilograms of plastic from oceans and rivers, but millions of tons still enter ...

Some Scientists Say Removing Ocean Plastic Could Backfire ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say a new study is now revealing that one of the largest patches of pollution on the planet is also teaming with life. And they're trying to learn what it means for the ...

BALTIMORE — Floating fences in India. Whimsical water- and solar-driven conveyor belts with googly eyes in Baltimore. Rechargeable aquatic drones and a bubble barrier in The Netherlands. These are ...

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Mariners on a ...

Inventor Boyan Slat is on a mission to rid oceans of plastic. His team at The Ocean Cleanup designs and deploys systems that pull trash from the open ocean. Now, he’s stopping the pollution at its ...