The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

She set sail on a monthlong voyage into the North Pacific Gyre, parts of which are known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The gyre, or area of spiraling ocean currents, is approximately twice ...

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 ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe.

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and how this garbage affects wildlife. Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle”.

Shoes, toilet seats, watering cans, bowling balls and boxes tumble to the ship's deck in a mountainous riot of colour. There are ropes, buoys, abandoned fishing gear, shredded nets and bottles ...