Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch in ...

The Pacific Ocean is being treated like a giant dumpster — and it's starting to look like one, too. A "floating" island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) now stretches ...

There's an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of trash in the garbage patch, according to Conservation.org, which also projects that by 2050, the mass of ocean trash from plastic will outweigh its fish.

The huge floating island of trash in the Pacific Ocean, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is now more than twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France.

And get this: according to Conservation International, by 2050 the mass of ocean trash from plastic will outweigh its fish. Now that's certainly reason enough to worry.

The Great Pacific garbage patch is now bigger than it’s ever been, covering an area that spans 1.6 million square kilometers. That’s up to 16 times larger than previous estimates had suggested ...

The fishing industry is dumping trash in the ocean — and the microplastics ... Scientists already knew that the North Pacific garbage patch — an island of garbage more than 610,000 ...

On Friday, June 6, visitors and residents helped clean up Coney Island Beach, collecting plastic bottles, shoes, soccer balls ...

A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea.

Have you ever been to the beach? Was there trash on the sand? Well, then you should hear about an island in the Pacific Ocean that is made of trash and is twice the size of Texas. This island was ...

Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest garbage patch i… ...