GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH, FLOATING 'ISLAND' OF TRASH IN OCEAN, IS NOW TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS "Eight million metric tons [of trash] are entering the world's oceans every single year," Schwartz ...

Researchers say they have discovered the highest density of trash in the world on a tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. According to a report this month in The Proceedings of ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw its ...

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.

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.