Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A French long-distance swimmer dove into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show the negative — and massive — affects of single ...

Ocean Vortex is a spiraling floating parliament concept built from recycled marine plastic, turning the Great Pacific Garbage ...

The debris field, located about 1,000 miles west of California, is made up of mostly plastic, but also has discarded fishing lines and other trash that can't decompose. A group from U.C. San Diego ...

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution found 484 marine invertebrates accounting for 46 different species in the "garbage vortex" that floats between California and Hawaii The Great Pacific ...

In the vast, swirling expanse of the North Pacific Ocean lies a phenomenon as intriguing as it is troubling – the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). This colossal debris vortex stretching from ...

When people swim in Lake Erie, they're frolicking not just among perch and walleye but a vast, inanimate presence of garbage. This material floats just beneath the surface and is made of little bits ...

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the “Great Pacific Garbage ...

It will be an ocean voyage to the least glamorous of destinations - a floating garbage dump in the middle of the Pacific. "I had no idea what a problem it was, and that's when I decided it was ...