A French long-distance swimmer dove into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to show the negative — and massive — affects of single use plastics and pollution. Earlier in the year, Ben Lecomte dove into ...

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 ...

Project Kaisei and Covanta Energy hope to process nonrecyclable plastic waste from the country-sized garbage patch in the Pacific and convert it into diesel. There is nothing new or good about the ...

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 Anna Lazarus Caplan ...

The North Pacific Gyre — a whirlpool of ocean currents covering millions of square miles — is so full of trash that it’s often referred to as the “Great Pacific garbage patch,” or more precisely, the ...

It’s been nearly 13 years since researchers first discovered the Pacific Trash Vortex, a country-sized mass of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre. Since that time, countless boats have come back ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1997, sea captain and surfer Charles Moore was sailing home from Hawaii. He’d been recently finished the TransPacific Yacht Race, and on the way back to California, he decided to take ...

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 ...