The Maersk Tender is one of two ships employed by the non-profit group The Ocean Cleanup to tackle the seemingly ...

Many of the creatures are coastal species, living miles from their usual habitats, on a patch halfway between ... floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr Linsey Haram ...

One of the studies describes an accumulation of micro-particles similar to the so called Pacific Garbage Patch, which was discovered a decade ago somewhere between Hawaii and California and which ...

Capt Moore explained that the space occupied by sub-tropical gyres ... But Capt Moore says the South Pacific garbage patch is different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, because most ...

BPDI tool identifies plastic on beaches from satellites by analyzing light reflections. This innovation supports targeted beach clean-ups.

Meet the resilient creatures that call the Pacific Garbage Patch home. Discover how they adapt, survive, and even thrive in ...

Humans pollute over 10 million tons of plastic trash into oceans every year. It's estimated that by 2030 that figure could ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

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The sailor has come across the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the two Great Pacific Garbage patches that sprawl a total of over 1.6 million square kilometres — half the size of India!