As plastic waste continues to grow, so does the trash that's accumulating in the Pacific Ocean. Two huge floating islands of garbage are taking up hundreds of thousands of square miles of real ...

However, unlike a true island, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not a solid mass, but rather a dense collection of floating pieces. In 2018, scientists from The Ocean Cleanup project estimated ...

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals a disturbing trend in the North Pacific ... floating plastics, from microplastics to macroplastics. This proliferation of plastic ...

New drone footage over the Palisades Fire burn zone showed the extent of the damage right off the Pacific Ocean.

The Ocean Cleanup will use giant floating pipes driven by the wind, waves and currents to cleanup the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California.

ocean garbage cans. Aptly named Seabin, these garbage cans float around harbors and marinas vacuuming loose rubbish. How do they work? Seabins are connected to a floating dock, which have pumps ...

Plastic samples collected during the expedition in 2015 Credit: THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), a massive area of floating plastic debris that is more than ...

Located in the North Pacific Ocean ... the Marine Debris Program Manager at the California Coastal Commission, told Shiffman. Some researchers also worry that a large floating system will ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Frank Nielsen captured this drone video near the Pacific Coast Highway. The video shows water lapping close to the remnants of destroyed structures before cutting to a large patch of floating debris.

Feb. 14 (UPI) --A member of the Los Angeles Fire Department saw his vehicle get swept into the Pacific Ocean after escaping the vehicle trapped in a large debris flow near Malibu Thursday evening.